Method parse

src/core/commandlineParser.cpp:148–343

}

int cCommandlineParser::parse(bool ignoreDuplicates, bool ignoreUnknown)
{
  bool showusage = false;

  // foreach argv element with(--) or (-), find the thing in opt
  SMILE_DBG(3,"about to parse %i commandline options ",argc-1);
  for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
    SMILE_DBG(5,"parsing option %i : '%s'",i,argv[i]);

    if ((unsigned char)argv[i][0] > 127) {
      SMILE_ERR(0, "Please don't be lazy and copy & paste the commandlines from the SMILE book PDF. Your commandline contains invalid ASCII characters (probably incorrect '-'es) as a result of this and might not be parsed correctly! Type the commandline from scratch to avoid errors.");
      SMILE_ERR(0, "The offending argument is: '%s'", argv[i]);
      COMP_ERR("Parse error.");
    }

    // skip if it's no option, i.e. doesn't start with a hyphen
    if (argv[i][0] != '-') 
      continue;

    // usage (-h)
    if (strcmp(argv[i], "-h") == 0) {
      showusage = 1;
      continue;
    }

    const char *o = argv[i]+1;

    // skip second hyphen if present
    if (o[0] == '-') o++;

    sCmdlineOpt *opt = findOpt(o);

    if (opt == NULL) { // not found!
      if (!ignoreUnknown) {
        SMILE_ERR(0,"parse: unknown option '%s' on commandline!",argv[i]);
      }
      continue;
    }

    if (opt->isSet) { // option specified twice...!
      if (!ignoreDuplicates) {  // if ignoreDuplicates, we suppress this error message
        SMILE_ERR(0,"duplicate option '%s' on commandline (ignoring duplicate!) ",o);
      }
      if (opt->numArgs > 0) {
        i += opt->numArgs;
      }
      continue;
    }

    // now look for value....
    if (i+1 < argc) {
      bool optCand = false;
      if (argv[i+1][0] == '-')
        optCand = true;  // argument might be an option...
      
      // parse value according to type...
      switch (opt->type) {
        case eCmdlineOptType::Boolean: {