simple-parse

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Simple, stupid and portable C argument (argv) parser. SParse is inspired by cargo. The idea is to expand the functionalities that this library offers, reimplement them and add new ones.

Build

Just include sparse.h to your project.

SParse tests are built with CMake for all platforms. You can also use the fake configure script provided to set it up on unix:

$ ./configure
$ make

Example

To handle the following program arguments:

./myprog --flag1 --flag2= --flag3=hello --flag4="Hello world"

You could write this:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sparse.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    char *f1 = sparse_flag("flag1", "FALSE", argc, argv);         /* f1 = "TRUE" */
    char *f2 = sparse_flag("flag2", "defaultval", argc, argv);    /* f2 = "" */
    char *f3 = sparse_flag("flag3", "bye", argc, argv);           /* f3 = "hello" */
    char *f4 = sparse_flag("flag4", "Bye world", argc, argv);     /* f4 = "Hello world" */
    char *f5 = sparse_flag("flag5", "default", argc, argv);       /* f5 = "default" */
    char *f6 = sparse_flag("flag6", "FALSE", argc, argv);         /* f6 = "FALSE" */

    return 0;
}