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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