99 lines
4.8 KiB
OCaml
99 lines
4.8 KiB
OCaml
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(* *)
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(* Objective Caml *)
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(* *)
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(* Damien Doligez, projet Para, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
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(* *)
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(* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
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(* en Automatique. All rights reserved. This file is distributed *)
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(* under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License, with *)
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(* the special exception on linking described in file ../LICENSE. *)
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(* *)
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(***********************************************************************)
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(* $Id$ *)
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(** Parsing of command line arguments.
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This module provides a general mechanism for extracting options and
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arguments from the command line to the program.
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Syntax of command lines:
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A keyword is a character string starting with a [-].
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An option is a keyword alone or followed by an argument.
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The types of keywords are: [Unit], [Set], [Clear], [String],
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[Int], [Float], and [Rest]. [Unit], [Set] and [Clear] keywords take
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no argument. [String], [Int], and [Float] keywords take the following
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word on the command line as an argument. A [Rest] keyword takes the
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remaining of the command line as (string) arguments.
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Arguments not preceded by a keyword are called anonymous arguments.
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Examples ([cmd] is assumed to be the command name):
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- [cmd -flag ](a unit option)
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- [cmd -int 1 ](an int option with argument [1])
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- [cmd -string foobar ](a string option with argument ["foobar"])
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- [cmd -float 12.34 ](a float option with argument [12.34])
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- [cmd a b c ](three anonymous arguments: ["a"], ["b"], and ["c"])
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- [cmd a b -- c d ](two anonymous arguments and a rest option with
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two arguments)
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*)
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type spec =
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Unit of (unit -> unit) (** Call the function with unit argument *)
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| Set of bool ref (** Set the reference to true *)
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| Clear of bool ref (** Set the reference to false *)
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| String of (string -> unit) (** Call the function with a string argument *)
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| Int of (int -> unit) (** Call the function with an int argument *)
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| Float of (float -> unit) (** Call the function with a float argument *)
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| Rest of (string -> unit) (** Stop interpreting keywords and call the
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function with each remaining argument *)
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(** The concrete type describing the behavior associated
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with a keyword. *)
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val parse :
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(string * spec * string) list -> (string -> unit) -> string -> unit
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(** [Arg.parse speclist anonfun usage_msg] parses the command line.
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[speclist] is a list of triples [(key, spec, doc)].
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[key] is the option keyword, it must start with a ['-'] character.
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[spec] gives the option type and the function to call when this option
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is found on the command line.
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[doc] is a one-line description of this option.
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[anonfun] is called on anonymous arguments.
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The functions in [spec] and [anonfun] are called in the same order
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as their arguments appear on the command line.
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If an error occurs, [Arg.parse] exits the program, after printing
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an error message as follows:
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- The reason for the error: unknown option, invalid or missing argument, etc.
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- [usage_msg]
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- The list of options, each followed by the corresponding [doc] string.
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For the user to be able to specify anonymous arguments starting with a
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[-], include for example [("-", String anonfun, doc)] in [speclist].
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By default, [parse] recognizes two unit options, [-help] and [--help],
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which will display [usage_msg] and the list of options, and exit
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the program. You can override this behaviour by specifying your
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own [-help] and [--help] options in [speclist].
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*)
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val parse_argv : string array ->
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(string * spec * string) list -> (string -> unit) -> string -> unit
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(** [Arg.parse_argv args speclist anonfun usage_msg] parses array [args] as
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if it were the command line. *)
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exception Bad of string
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(** Functions in [spec] or [anonfun] can raise [Arg.Bad] with an error
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message to reject invalid arguments. *)
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val usage : (string * spec * string) list -> string -> unit
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(** [Arg.usage speclist usage_msg] prints an error message including
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the list of valid options. This is the same message that
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{!Arg.parse} prints in case of error.
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[speclist] and [usage_msg] are the same as for [Arg.parse]. *)
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val current : int ref
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(** Position (in {!Sys.argv}) of the argument being processed. You can
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change this value, e.g. to force {!Arg.parse} to skip some arguments.*)
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