/* argmatch.c -- find a match for a string in an array Copyright (C) 1990, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /* Written by David MacKenzie */ #if HAVE_CONFIG_H # include #endif #include #include #include #if HAVE_STRING_H # include #else # include #endif /* If ARG is an unambiguous match for an element of the null-terminated array OPTLIST, return the index in OPTLIST of the matched element, else -1 if it does not match any element or -2 if it is ambiguous (is a prefix of more than one element). */ int argmatch (arg, optlist) const char *arg; const char *const *optlist; { int i; /* Temporary index in OPTLIST. */ size_t arglen; /* Length of ARG. */ int matchind = -1; /* Index of first nonexact match. */ int ambiguous = 0; /* If nonzero, multiple nonexact match(es). */ arglen = strlen (arg); /* Test all elements for either exact match or abbreviated matches. */ for (i = 0; optlist[i]; i++) { if (!strncmp (optlist[i], arg, arglen)) { if (strlen (optlist[i]) == arglen) /* Exact match found. */ return i; else if (matchind == -1) /* First nonexact match found. */ matchind = i; else /* Second nonexact match found. */ ambiguous = 1; } } if (ambiguous) return -2; else return matchind; } /* Error reporting for argmatch. KIND is a description of the type of entity that was being matched. VALUE is the invalid value that was given. PROBLEM is the return value from argmatch. */ void invalid_arg (kind, value, problem) const char *kind; const char *value; int problem; { fprintf (stderr, "%s: ", program_name); if (problem == -1) fprintf (stderr, "invalid"); else /* Assume -2. */ fprintf (stderr, "ambiguous"); fprintf (stderr, " %s `%s'\n", kind, value); }