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32.\" @(#)getsubopt.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
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35.Dd June 9, 1993
36.Dt GETSUBOPT 3
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm getsubopt
40.Nd get sub options from an argument
41.Sh LIBRARY
42.Lb libc
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.In stdlib.h
45.Vt extern char *suboptarg ;
46.Ft int
47.Fo getsubopt
48.Fa "char **optionp"
49.Fa "char *const *keylistp"
50.Fa "char **valuep"
51.Fc
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53The
54.Fn getsubopt
55function
56parses a string containing tokens that are delimited
57by one or more tab, space, or comma
58.Pq Ql \&,
59characters.
60It is intended for use in parsing groups of option arguments
61that are provided as part of a utility command line.
62.Pp
63The argument
64.Fa optionp
65is a pointer to a pointer to the string.
66The argument
67.Fa keylistp
68is a pointer to a
69.Dv NULL Ns -terminated
70array of pointers to strings.
71.Pp
72The
73.Fn getsubopt
74function
75returns the zero-based offset of the pointer in the
76.Fa keylistp
77array, referencing a string which matches the first token in the string
78 or \-1 if the string contains no tokens or
79.Fa keylistp
80does not contain a matching string.
81.Pp
82If the token is of the form ``name=value'', the location referenced by
83.Fa valuep
84will be set to point to the start of the ``value'' portion of the token.
85.Pp
86On return from
87.Fn getsubopt ,
88.Fa optionp
89will be set to point to the start of the next token in the string,
90or the null at the end of the string if no more tokens are present.
91The external variable
92.Fa suboptarg
93will be set to point to the start of the current token, or
94.Dv NULL
95if no
96tokens were present.
97The argument
98.Fa valuep
99will be set to point to the ``value'' portion of the token, or
100.Dv NULL
101if no ``value'' portion was present.
102.Sh EXAMPLES
103.Bd -literal -compact
104char *keylistp[] = {
105 #define ONE 0
106 "one",
107 #define TWO 1
108 "two",
109 NULL
110};
111
112\&...
113
114extern char *optarg, *suboptarg;
115char *options, *value;
116
117while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "ab:")) != \-1) {
118 switch(ch) {
119 case 'a':
120 /* process ``a'' option */
121 break;
122 case 'b':
123 options = optarg;
124 while (*options) {
125 switch(getsubopt(&options, keylistp, &value)) {
126 case ONE:
127 /* process ``one'' sub option */
128 break;
129 case TWO:
130 /* process ``two'' sub option */
131 if (!value)
132 error("no value for two");
133 i = atoi(value);
134 break;
135 case \-1:
136 if (suboptarg)
137 error("illegal sub option %s",
138 suboptarg);
139 else
140 error("missing sub option");
141 break;
142 }
143 break;
144 }
145.Ed
146.Sh SEE ALSO
147.Xr getopt 3 ,
148.Xr strsep 3
149.Sh HISTORY
150The
151.Fn getsubopt
152function first appeared in
153.Bx 4.4 .