FindOpt

Arguments

varname

the name of the optional parameter

opts

a C list of optional parameters

typedef struct rhs_opts__ {
  int position ; // stack position : -1 if not present
  char *name; // the name of the variable
  char *type; // a Scilab type (like "d") representing the type of the variable
  int m,n; // the size of the variable
  unsigned long int l; // a pointer to the Scilab stack
} rhs_opts;

Pos

the rank of the optional parameter if it has been found in the parameters sent to the C function, 0 otherwise.

Description

A C gateway function which find the position of an optional argument given its name. You must include stack-c.h to benefit from this function.

WARNING: This API is deprecated from Scilab 5.2.0 and is going to be removed with Scilab 6.0. Please use API Scilab (the new Scilab API).

Examples

A more complete example is available in the directory SCI/modules/core/example/optional_parameters.

#include <stack-c.h>

int sci_optional_parameters(char * fname)
{ 
  int m1,n1,l1;

  // optional names must be stored in alphabetical order in opts
  static rhs_opts opts[]= {{-1,"v1","d",0,0,0},
                           {-1,"v2","d",0,0,0},
                           {-1,NULL,NULL,0,0}};

  int minrhs = 1, maxrhs = 1;
  int minlhs = 1, maxlhs = 3;
  int nopt, iopos, res;
  char buffer_name[csiz]; // csiz used for character coding

  nopt = NumOpt();

  CheckRhs(minrhs,maxrhs+nopt);
  CheckLhs(minlhs,maxlhs);

  // first non optional argument
  GetRhsVar( 1, "c", &m1, &n1, &l1);
  
  if (get_optionals(fname,opts)==0) return 0;

  sciprint("number of optional parameters = %d\n", NumOpt());
  sciprint("first optional parameters = %d\n", FirstOpt());
  sciprint("FindOpt(v1) = %d\n", FindOpt("v1", opts));
  sciprint("FindOpt(v2) = %d\n", FindOpt("v2", opts));

  if (IsOpt(1,buffer_name))
    sciprint("parameter 1 is optional: %s\n", buffer_name);
  if (IsOpt(2,buffer_name))
    sciprint("parameter 2 is optional: %s\n", buffer_name);
  if (IsOpt(3,buffer_name))
    sciprint("parameter 3 is optional: %s\n", buffer_name);

  return 0;
}

See Also

• CheckDims — C interface function which checks if a parameter send to the C function has the required dimensions
• CheckRow — C interface function which checks if a parameter send to the C function is a row vector or not
• CheckScalar — C interface function which checks if a parameter send to the C function is a scalar or not
• CheckVector — C interface function which checks if a parameter send to the C function is a vector (column or row) or not
• CheckOverLoad — C gateway function which tells Scilab to look for another overloaded function
• CheckDimProp — C interface function which checks the comatibility between 2 arguments send to the C function
• CheckLength — C interface function which checks the length of a vector send as a parameter to the C function
• CheckSameDims — C interface function which checks if two parameters send to the C function have the same size
• CheckSquare — C interface function which checks if a parameter send to the C function is a square matrix or not
• How to check parameters — how to check parameter send to an interface using the C gateway functions