Unit 'CustApp' Package
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TCustomApplication.CheckOptions

Check whether all given options on the command-line are valid.

Declaration

Source position: custapp.pp line 85

public function TCustomApplication.CheckOptions(

  const ShortOptions: string;

  const Longopts: TStrings;

  Opts: TStrings;

  NonOpts: TStrings;

  AllErrors: Boolean = False

):string;

function TCustomApplication.CheckOptions(

  const ShortOptions: string;

  const Longopts: array of string;

  Opts: TStrings;

  NonOpts: TStrings;

  AllErrors: Boolean = False

):string;

function TCustomApplication.CheckOptions(

  const ShortOptions: string;

  const Longopts: TStrings;

  AllErrors: Boolean = False

):string;

function TCustomApplication.CheckOptions(

  const ShortOptions: string;

  const LongOpts: array of string;

  AllErrors: Boolean = False

):string;

function TCustomApplication.CheckOptions(

  const ShortOptions: string;

  const LongOpts: string;

  AllErrors: Boolean = False

):string;

Arguments

ShortOptions

  

List of valid short options.

Longopts

  

List of valid long options.

Opts

  

Valid options passed to the program.

NonOpts

  

Non-option strings passed to the program.

AllErrors

  

Should all errors be returned, or just the first one?

Function result

Empty string or error-message.

Arguments

ShortOptions

  

List of valid short options.

Longopts

  

List of valid long options.

Opts

  

Valid options passed to the program.

NonOpts

  

Non-option strings passed to the program.

AllErrors

  

Should all errors be returned, or just the first one?

Arguments

ShortOptions

  

List of valid short options.

Longopts

  

List of valid long options.

AllErrors

  

Should all errors be returned, or just the first one?

Arguments

ShortOptions

  

List of valid short options.

LongOpts

  

List of valid long options.

AllErrors

  

Should all errors be returned, or just the first one?

Arguments

ShortOptions

  

List of valid short options.

LongOpts

  

List of valid long options.

AllErrors

  

Should all errors be returned, or just the first one?

Description

CheckOptions scans the command-line and checks whether the options given are valid options. It also checks whether options that require a valued are indeed specified with a value.

The ShortOptions contains a string with valid short option characters. Each character in the string is a valid option character. If a character is followed by a colon (:), then a value must be specified. If it is followed by 2 colon characters (::) then the value is optional.

LongOpts is a list of strings (which can be specified as an array, a TStrings instance or a string with whitespace-separated values) of valid long options.

When the function returns, if Opts is non-Nil, the Opts stringlist is filled with the passed valid options. If NonOpts is non-nil, it is filled with any non-option strings that were passed on the command-line.

The function returns an empty string if all specified options were valid options, and whether options requiring a value have a value. If an error was found during the check, the return value is a string describing the error.

Options are identified as command-line parameters which start with OptionChar (by default the dash ('-') character).

if AllErrors is True then all errors are returned, separated by a sLineBreak character.

Errors

If an error was found during the check, the return value is a string describing the error(s).

See also

FindOptionIndex

  

Return the index of an option.

GetOptionValue

  

Return the value of a command-line option.

HasOption

  

Check whether an option was specified.

CaseSensitiveOptions

  

Are options interpreted case sensitive or not.

OptionChar

  

Command-line switch character.


Documentation generated on: Nov 22 2024