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+.\" $OpenBSD: getsubopt.3,v 1.16 2022/08/04 06:20:24 jsg Exp $
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" @(#)getsubopt.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
+.\"
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 4 2022 $
+.Dt GETSUBOPT 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm getsubopt
+.Nd get sub options from an argument
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In stdlib.h
+.Vt extern char *suboptarg;
+.Ft int
+.Fn getsubopt "char **optionp" "char * const *tokens" "char **valuep"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn getsubopt
+function parses a string containing tokens delimited by one or more
+tab, space, or comma
+.Pq Ql \&,
+characters.
+It is intended for use in parsing groups of option arguments provided
+as part of a utility command line.
+.Pp
+The argument
+.Fa optionp
+is a pointer to a pointer to the string.
+The argument
+.Fa tokens
+is a pointer to a
+.Dv NULL Ns -terminated
+array of pointers to strings.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn getsubopt
+function returns the zero-based offset of the pointer in the
+.Fa tokens
+array referencing a string which matches the first token
+in the string, or \-1 if the string contains no tokens or
+.Fa tokens
+does not contain a matching string.
+.Pp
+If the token is of the form
+.Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value ,
+the location referenced by
+.Fa valuep
+will be set to point to the start of the
+.Dq value
+portion of the token.
+.Pp
+On return from
+.Fn getsubopt ,
+.Fa optionp
+will be set to point to the start of the next token in the string,
+or the NUL at the end of the string if no more tokens are present.
+The comma, space, or tab character ending the token just parsed,
+and the equal sign separating name and value if any, are replaced
+with NUL bytes in the original
+.Pf * Fa optionp
+input string.
+The external variable
+.Fa suboptarg
+will be set to point to the start of the current token, or
+.Dv NULL
+if no tokens were present.
+The argument
+.Fa valuep
+will be set to point to the value portion of the token, or
+.Dv NULL
+if no value portion was present.
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+.Bd -literal
+char *tokens[] = {
+ #define ONE 0
+ "one",
+ #define TWO 1
+ "two",
+ NULL
+};
+
+\&...
+
+extern char *optarg, *suboptarg;
+char *options, *value;
+
+while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "ab:")) != -1) {
+ switch (ch) {
+ case 'a':
+ /* process "a" option */
+ break;
+ case 'b':
+ options = optarg;
+ while (*options) {
+ switch (getsubopt(&options, tokens, &value)) {
+ case ONE:
+ /* process "one" sub option */
+ break;
+ case TWO:
+ /* process "two" sub option */
+ if (!value)
+ error("no value for two");
+ i = atoi(value);
+ break;
+ case -1:
+ if (suboptarg)
+ error("illegal sub option %s",
+ suboptarg);
+ else
+ error("missing sub option");
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ break;
+ }
+}
+.Ed
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getopt 3 ,
+.Xr strsep 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn getsubopt
+function conforms to
+.St -p1003.1-2008 .
+.Pp
+Allowing space and tab characters to separate tokens
+and the external variable
+.Va suboptarg
+are extensions to that standard.
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn getsubopt
+function first appeared in
+.Bx 4.3 Net/2 .