const std = @import("std"); const clap = @import("clap"); const debug = std.debug; pub fn main() !void { const allocator = std.heap.page_allocator; // First we specify what parameters our program can take. const params = [_]clap.Param(u8){ clap.Param(u8){ .id = 'h', .names = clap.Names{ .short = 'h', .long = "help" }, }, clap.Param(u8){ .id = 'n', .names = clap.Names{ .short = 'n', .long = "number" }, .takes_value = .One, }, clap.Param(u8){ .id = 'f', .takes_value = .One, }, }; // We then initialize an argument iterator. We will use the OsIterator as it nicely // wraps iterating over arguments the most efficient way on each os. var iter = try clap.args.OsIterator.init(allocator); defer iter.deinit(); // Initialize our streaming parser. var parser = clap.StreamingClap(u8, clap.args.OsIterator){ .params = ¶ms, .iter = &iter, }; // Initalize our diagnostics, which can be used for reporting useful errors. // This is optional. You can also just pass `null` to `parser.next` if you // don't care about the extra information `Diagnostics` provides. var diag: clap.Diagnostic = undefined; // Because we use a streaming parser, we have to consume each argument parsed individually. while (parser.next(&diag) catch |err| { // Report useful error and exit diag.report(std.io.getStdErr().outStream(), err) catch {}; return err; }) |arg| { // arg.param will point to the parameter which matched the argument. switch (arg.param.id) { 'h' => debug.warn("Help!\n", .{}), 'n' => debug.warn("--number = {}\n", .{arg.value.?}), // arg.value == null, if arg.param.takes_value == false. // Otherwise, arg.value is the value passed with the argument, such as "-a=10" // or "-a 10". 'f' => debug.warn("{}\n", .{arg.value.?}), else => unreachable, } } }