.TH optionFindValue 3 2020-04-25 "" "Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
optionFindValue - find a hierarcicaly valued option instance
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.SH SYNOPSIS

#include <\fIyour-opts.h\fP>
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cc [...] -o outfile infile.c -l\fBopts\fP [...]
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const tOptionValue * \fBoptionFindValue\fP(const tOptDesc * \fIodesc\fP, char const * \fIname\fP, char const * \fIval\fP);
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.SH 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.
.TP
.IR odesc
an option with a nested arg type
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.IR name
name of value to find
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.IR val
the matching value
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.SH RETURN VALUE
a compound value structure
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.SH ERRORS
The returned result is NULL and errno is set:
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\fBEINVAL\fP \- the \fBpOptValue\fP does not point to a valid
hierarchical option value.
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\fBENOENT\fP \- no entry matched the given name.
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.SH SEE ALSO
The \fIinfo\fP documentation for the -l\fIopts\fP library.
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ao_string_tokenize(3), configFileLoad(3), optionFileLoad(3), optionFindNextValue(3), optionFree(3), optionGetValue(3), optionLoadLine(3), optionMemberList(3), optionNextValue(3), optionOnlyUsage(3), optionPrintVersion(3), optionPrintVersionAndReturn(3), optionProcess(3), optionRestore(3), optionSaveFile(3), optionSaveState(3), optionUnloadNested(3), optionVersion(3), strequate(3), streqvcmp(3), streqvmap(3), strneqvcmp(3), strtransform(3),