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##### 25.3.11.3 A Program Using Argp with User Options

This program uses the same features as example 2, adding user options and arguments.

We now use the first four fields in `argp` (see Argp Parsers) and specify `parse_opt` as the parser function. See Argp Parser Functions.

Note that in this example, `main` uses a structure to communicate with the `parse_opt` function, a pointer to which it passes in the `input` argument to `argp_parse`. See Argp. It is retrieved by `parse_opt` through the `input` field in its `state` argument. See Argp Parsing State. Of course, it's also possible to use global variables instead, but using a structure like this is somewhat more flexible and clean.

         /* This program uses the same features as example 2, and uses options and
            arguments.

            We now use the first four fields in ARGP, so here's a description of them:
              OPTIONS  -- A pointer to a vector of struct argp_option (see below)
              PARSER   -- A function to parse a single option, called by argp
              ARGS_DOC -- A string describing how the non-option arguments should look
              DOC      -- A descriptive string about this program; if it contains a
                          vertical tab character (\v), the part after it will be
                          printed *following* the options

            The function PARSER takes the following arguments:
              KEY  -- An integer specifying which option this is (taken
                      from the KEY field in each struct argp_option), or
                      a special key specifying something else; the only
                      special keys we use here are ARGP_KEY_ARG, meaning
                      a non-option argument, and ARGP_KEY_END, meaning
                      that all arguments have been parsed
              ARG  -- For an option KEY, the string value of its
                      argument, or NULL if it has none
              STATE-- A pointer to a struct argp_state, containing
                      various useful information about the parsing state; used here
                      are the INPUT field, which reflects the INPUT argument to
                      argp_parse, and the ARG_NUM field, which is the number of the
                      current non-option argument being parsed
            It should return either 0, meaning success, ARGP_ERR_UNKNOWN, meaning the
            given KEY wasn't recognized, or an errno value indicating some other
            error.

            Note that in this example, main uses a structure to communicate with the
            parse_opt function, a pointer to which it passes in the INPUT argument to
            argp_parse.  Of course, it's also possible to use global variables
            instead, but this is somewhat more flexible.

            The OPTIONS field contains a pointer to a vector of struct argp_option's;
            that structure has the following fields (if you assign your option
            structures using array initialization like this example, unspecified
            fields will be defaulted to 0, and need not be specified):
              NAME   -- The name of this option's long option (may be zero)
              KEY    -- The KEY to pass to the PARSER function when parsing this option,
                        *and* the name of this option's short option, if it is a
                        printable ascii character
              ARG    -- The name of this option's argument, if any
              FLAGS  -- Flags describing this option; some of them are:
                          OPTION_ARG_OPTIONAL -- The argument to this option is optional
                          OPTION_ALIAS        -- This option is an alias for the
                                                 previous option
                          OPTION_HIDDEN       -- Don't show this option in --help output
              DOC    -- A documentation string for this option, shown in --help output

            An options vector should be terminated by an option with all fields zero. */

         #include <stdlib.h>
         #include <argp.h>

         const char *argp_program_version =
           "argp-ex3 1.0";
         const char *argp_program_bug_address =
           "<bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>";

         /* Program documentation. */
         static char doc[] =
           "Argp example #3 -- a program with options and arguments using argp";

         /* A description of the arguments we accept. */
         static char args_doc[] = "ARG1 ARG2";

         /* The options we understand. */
         static struct argp_option options[] = {
           {"verbose",  'v', 0,      0,  "Produce verbose output" },
           {"quiet",    'q', 0,      0,  "Don't produce any output" },
           {"silent",   's', 0,      OPTION_ALIAS },
           {"output",   'o', "FILE", 0,
            "Output to FILE instead of standard output" },
           { 0 }
         };

         /* Used by main to communicate with parse_opt. */
         struct arguments
         {
           char *args[2];                /* arg1 & arg2 */
           int silent, verbose;
           char *output_file;
         };

         /* Parse a single option. */
         static error_t
         parse_opt (int key, char *arg, struct argp_state *state)
         {
           /* Get the input argument from argp_parse, which we
              know is a pointer to our arguments structure. */
           struct arguments *arguments = state->input;

           switch (key)
             {
             case 'q': case 's':
               arguments->silent = 1;
               break;
             case 'v':
               arguments->verbose = 1;
               break;
             case 'o':
               arguments->output_file = arg;
               break;

             case ARGP_KEY_ARG:
               if (state->arg_num >= 2)
                 /* Too many arguments. */
                 argp_usage (state);

               arguments->args[state->arg_num] = arg;

               break;

             case ARGP_KEY_END:
               if (state->arg_num < 2)
                 /* Not enough arguments. */
                 argp_usage (state);
               break;

             default:
               return ARGP_ERR_UNKNOWN;
             }
           return 0;
         }

         /* Our argp parser. */
         static struct argp argp = { options, parse_opt, args_doc, doc };

         int
         main (int argc, char **argv)
         {
           struct arguments arguments;

           /* Default values. */
           arguments.silent = 0;
           arguments.verbose = 0;
           arguments.output_file = "-";

           /* Parse our arguments; every option seen by parse_opt will
              be reflected in arguments. */
           argp_parse (&argp, argc, argv, 0, 0, &arguments);

           printf ("ARG1 = %s\nARG2 = %s\nOUTPUT_FILE = %s\n"
                   "VERBOSE = %s\nSILENT = %s\n",
                   arguments.args[0], arguments.args[1],
                   arguments.output_file,
                   arguments.verbose ? "yes" : "no",
                   arguments.silent ? "yes" : "no");

           exit (0);
         }