optionfindvalue(3)

optionFindValue – find a hierarcicaly valued option instance

Synopsis

#include <your-opts.h>
cc[…] - o outfile infile.c - lopts[…] const tOptionValue *optionFindValue(const tOptDesc *odesc, char const *name, char const *val);

Description

This routine will find an entry in a nested value option or configurable. It will search through the list and return a matching entry.

odesc

an option with a nested arg type

name

name of value to find

val

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), optionFindNextValue(3), optionFree(3), optionGetValue(3), optionLoadLine(3), optionMemberList(3), optionNextValue(3), optionOnlyUsage(3), optionProcess(3), optionRestore(3), optionSaveFile(3), optionSaveState(3), optionUnloadNested(3), optionVersion(3), strequate(3), streqvcmp(3), streqvmap(3), strneqvcmp(3), strtransform(3),