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* odesc, char const* name, char const* val);

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.

       odesc  an option with a nested arg type

       name   name of value to find

       val    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),
       optionMemberList(3), optionNextValue(3), optionOnlyUsage(3),  optionProcess(3),	optionRestore(3),  optionSaveFile(3),  optionSaveState(3),
       optionUnloadNested(3), optionVersion(3), strequate(3), streqvcmp(3), streqvmap(3), strneqvcmp(3), strtransform(3),

								    2014-06-10							optionFindValue(3)