using getopt() more than once

[Praveen]

Hi,

Any one ever used getopt function more than once. Here is my example.
I have to run a process as

myProcess -x -y -c "-a -f myFile -o myOutput -d debugFile"

First I have to check for -c option and use the value of this -x
argument for next get opt.

Any one has an experience in the same. The reply will be highly
appreciated.

Regards
Praveen Kumar M

[Malcolm]

Re: using getopt() more than once


"Praveen" <praveenmadis@g mail.com> wrote[color=blue]
> Any one ever used getopt function more than once. Here is my example.
> I have to run a process as
>
> myProcess -x -y -c "-a -f myFile -o myOutput -d debugFile"
>[/color]
The thing to do in these situations is first, read the documentation for the
function, and second do a bit of exploratory programming. Just get the
options and echo them to stdout.
getopt() is not an ANSI function and it is years since I last used it, so I
couldn't tell you exactly how it works.

[Giovanni]

Re: using getopt() more than once

Praveen wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> Any one ever used getopt function more than once. Here is my example.
> I have to run a process as
>
> myProcess -x -y -c "-a -f myFile -o myOutput -d debugFile"
>
> First I have to check for -c option and use the value of this -x
> argument for next get opt.
>
> Any one has an experience in the same. The reply will be highly
> appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Praveen Kumar M
>[/color]

I don't really understand what you mean. But in the manner you wrote it
and assuming that -c is specified with an argument ("c:" in the option
string) the string "-a -f myFile -o myOutput -d debugFile" is parsed as
a single argument to -c. Otherwise will be parsed as a positional argument.

I don't think you can parse it using getopt() since it is a single
string not an array of pointers to the single word.

Ciao
Giovanni
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