/* Arg_parser - A POSIX/GNU command line argument parser. Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* Arg_parser reads the arguments in `argv' and creates a number of option codes, option arguments and non-option arguments. In case of error, `error' returns a non-empty error message. `options' is an array of `struct Option' terminated by an element containing a code which is zero. A null name means a short-only option. A code value outside the unsigned char range means a long-only option. Arg_parser normally makes it appear as if all the option arguments were specified before all the non-option arguments for the purposes of parsing, even if the user of your program intermixed option and non-option arguments. If you want the arguments in the exact order the user typed them, call `Arg_parser' with `in_order' = true. The argument `--' terminates all options; any following arguments are treated as non-option arguments, even if they begin with a hyphen. The syntax for optional option arguments is `-' (without whitespace), or `--='. */ class Arg_parser { public: enum Has_arg { no, yes, maybe }; struct Option { int code; // Short option letter or code ( code != 0 ) const char * name; // Long option name (maybe null) Has_arg has_arg; }; private: struct Record { int code; std::string argument; Record ( const int c = 0 ) : code ( c ) {} }; std::string _error; std::vector< Record > data; bool parse_long_option ( const char * const opt, const char * const arg, const Option options[], int & argind ) throw(); bool parse_short_option ( const char * const opt, const char * const arg, const Option options[], int & argind ) throw(); public: Arg_parser ( const int argc, const char * const argv[], const Option options[], const bool in_order = false ) throw(); // Restricted constructor. Parses a single token and argument (if any) Arg_parser ( const char * const opt, const char * const arg, const Option options[] ) throw(); const std::string & error() const throw() { return _error; } // The number of arguments parsed (may be different from argc) int arguments() const throw() { return data.size(); } // If code( i ) is 0, argument( i ) is a non-option. // Else argument( i ) is the option's argument (or empty). int code ( const int i ) const throw() { if ( i >= 0 && i < arguments() ) return data[i].code; else return 0; } const std::string & argument ( const int i ) const throw() { if ( i >= 0 && i < arguments() ) return data[i].argument; else return _error; } };