YAAP - Yet Another Argument Parser Documentation

Introduction

YAAP is a simple command line argument parser for C. It uses functions and structures to add arguments to the parsing context and parse the command line.

Features

• git like command support (git commit)
• short and long flag support ( -t YAAP or –title=YAAP)
• string argument support ( -t YAAP or – title=YAAP)
• simple flags (-v, -V, -h, –help)
• integer arguments (-c 10)

coming

• hex arguments ( -c 0x5A)

Repository

https://github.com/byterazor/yaap

Installation

YAAP is intented to be copied into your project directory. Different approaches are available:

• simpe copy argparse.h and argparse.c into your source directory
• add the github repository as a submodule
• add the github repository as a subtree
• add the github repository as a subrepo

In all cases you have to make sure that argparse.c is compiled into an object file and is appended to your link stage.

Functions

All available functions can be found in argparse.c.