optionFindNextValue

Section: Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2016-10-27
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NAME

optionFindNextValue - find a hierarcicaly valued option instance

 

SYNOPSIS

#include <your-opts.h>
cc [...] -o outfile infile.c -lopts [...]

const tOptionValue * optionFindNextValue(const tOptDesc * odesc, const tOptionValue * pPrevVal, char const * name, char const * value);

 

DESCRIPTION

This routine will find the next entry in a nested value option or configurable. It will search through the list and return the next entry that matches the criteria.

odesc

an option with a nested arg type

pPrevVal

the last entry

name

name of value to find

value

the matching value

 

RETURN VALUE

a compound value structure

 

ERRORS

The returned result is NULL and errno is set:

EINVAL - the pOptValue does not point to a valid hierarchical option value.

ENOENT - no entry matched the given name. @end itemize  

SEE ALSO

The info documentation for the -lopts library.
ao_string_tokenize(3), configFileLoad(3), optionFileLoad(3), optionFindValue(3), optionFree(3), optionGetValue(3), optionLoadLine(3), optionMemberList(3), optionNextValue(3), optionOnlyUsage(3), optionPrintVersion(3), optionPrintVersionAndReturn(3), optionProcess(3), optionRestore(3), optionSaveFile(3), optionSaveState(3), optionUnloadNested(3), optionVersion(3), strequate(3), streqvcmp(3), streqvmap(3), strneqvcmp(3), strtransform(3),

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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

RETURN VALUE

ERRORS

SEE ALSO