optionFindValue(3) Programmer's Manual optionFindValue(3) NAME optionFindValue - find a hierarcicaly valued option instance SYNOPSIS #include <your-opts.h> cc [...] -o outfile infile.c -lopts [...] const tOptionValue* optionFindValue(const tOptDesc* pOptDesc, const char* name, const char* value); DESCRIPTION This routine will find an entry in a nested value option or configurable. It will search through the list and return a matching entry. pOptDesc an option with a nested arg type name name of value to find value the matching value RETURN VALUE a compound value structure ERRORS The returned result is NULL and errno is set: EINVAL - the pOptValue does not point to a valid hierarchical option value. ENOENT - no entry matched the given name. @end itemize SEE ALSO The info documentation for the -lopts library. ao_string_tokenize(3), configFileLoad(3), optionFileLoad(3), optionFindNextValue(3), optionFree(3), optionGetValue(3), optionLoadLine(3), optionNextValue(3), optionProcess(3), optionRestore(3), optionSaveFile(3), optionSaveState(3), optionUnloadNested(3), optionVersion(3), pathfind(3), strequate(3), streqvcmp(3), streqvmap(3), strneqvcmp(3), strtransform(3), 2005-10-12 optionFindValue(3)