From: pheffner@fang.att.com (Paul Heffner)
Subject: Re: Reading DOS command line options
Organization: AT&T BAP Architecture, Maitland FL.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:36:39 GMT

wkamm@acpy01.att.com (William Kamm (CXNIXPT1)) writes:
> 
> Does anyone have a DOS equivalent to the UNIX getopt() function?  This 
> function will return, one at a time, the options and any associated
> arguments entered on the command line when the program was invoked.
> 
> I need this...
Got this from the net a few years back, it works great. I use
it under MSC 5.1 and 6, I see no reason it wouldn't work OK under 7.
The commentary is from the original poster.
Enjoy!

Heff

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/*
**	@(#)getopt.c	2.2 (smail) 1/26/87
*/

/*
 * Here's something you've all been waiting for:  the AT&T public domain
 * source for getopt(3).  It is the code which was given out at the 1985
 * UNIFORUM conference in Dallas.  I obtained it by electronic mail
 * directly from AT&T.  The people there assure me that it is indeed
 * in the public domain.
 *
 * There is no manual page.  That is because the one they gave out at
 * UNIFORUM was slightly different from the current System V Release 2
 * manual page.  The difference apparently involved a note about the
 * famous rules 5 and 6, recommending using white space between an option
 * and its first argument, and not grouping options that have arguments.
 * Getopt itself is currently lenient about both of these things White
 * space is allowed, but not mandatory, and the last option in a group can
 * have an argument.  That particular version of the man page evidently
 * has no official existence, and my source at AT&T did not send a copy.
 * The current SVR2 man page reflects the actual behavor of this getopt.
 * However, I am not about to post a copy of anything licensed by AT&T.
 */

#ifdef BSD
#include <strings.h>
#else
#include <string.h>
#define	index	strchr
#endif

/*LINTLIBRARY*/
#define NULL	0
#define EOF	(-1)
#define ERR(s, c)	if(opterr){\
	extern int write();\
	char errbuf[2];\
	errbuf[0] = c; errbuf[1] = '\n';\
	(void) write(2, argv[0], (unsigned)strlen(argv[0]));\
	(void) write(2, s, (unsigned)strlen(s));\
	(void) write(2, errbuf, 2);}

#include "getopt.h"

int	opterr = 1;
int	optind = 1;
int	optopt;
char	*optarg;

int
getopt(argc, argv, opts)
int	argc;
char	**argv, *opts;
{
	static int sp = 1;
	register int c;
	register char *cp;

	if(sp == 1)
		if(optind >= argc ||
		   argv[optind][0] != '-' || argv[optind][1] == '\0')
			return(EOF);
		else if(strcmp(argv[optind], "--") == NULL) {
			optind++;
			return(EOF);
		}
	optopt = c = argv[optind][sp];
	if(c == ':' || (cp=index(opts, c)) == NULL) {
		ERR(": illegal option -- ", c);
		if(argv[optind][++sp] == '\0') {
			optind++;
			sp = 1;
		}
		return('?');
	}
	if(*++cp == ':') {
		if(argv[optind][sp+1] != '\0')
			optarg = &argv[optind++][sp+1];
		else if(++optind >= argc) {
			ERR(": option requires an argument -- ", c);
			sp = 1;
			return('?');
		} else
			optarg = argv[optind++];
		sp = 1;
	} else {
		if(argv[optind][++sp] == '\0') {
			sp = 1;
			optind++;
		}
		optarg = NULL;
	}
	return(c);
}
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