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This is an example of documentation generated by ZigDoc, an alternative to Zig's built-in Auto Doc feature. See also examples in other modes/formats. The project being documented here (as the example) is the Zig standard library. Public Struct

Iterator

Public Struct
std.process.Args.Iterator
pub const Iterator = struct

Cross-platform access to command line one argument at a time.

Fields

inner: Inner

Structs

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Functions

pub fn init(a: Args) Iterator

Initialize the args iterator. Consider using initAllocator instead for cross-platform compatibility.

pub fn initAllocator(a: Args, gpa: Allocator) InitError!Iterator

You must deinitialize iterator's internal buffers by calling deinit when done.

pub fn next(it: *Iterator) ?[: 0]const u8

Return subsequent argument, or null if no more remaining.

Returned slice is pointing to the iterator's internal buffer. On Windows, the result is encoded as WTF-8. On other platforms, the result is an opaque sequence of bytes with no particular encoding.

pub fn skip(it: *Iterator) bool

Parse past 1 argument without capturing it. Returns true if skipped an arg, false if we are at the end.

pub fn deinit(it: *Iterator) void

Required to release resources if the iterator was initialized with initAllocator function.

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pub const Iterator = struct {
    const Inner = switch (native_os) {
        .windows => Windows,
        .wasi => if (builtin.link_libc) Posix else Wasi,
        else => Posix,
    };

    inner: Inner,

    /// Initialize the args iterator. Consider using `initAllocator` instead
    /// for cross-platform compatibility.
    pub fn init(a: Args) Iterator {
        if (native_os == .wasi) @compileError("In WASI, use initAllocator instead.");
        if (native_os == .windows) @compileError("In Windows, use initAllocator instead.");
        return .{ .inner = .init(a) };
    }

    pub const InitError = Inner.InitError;

    /// You must deinitialize iterator's internal buffers by calling `deinit` when done.
    pub fn initAllocator(a: Args, gpa: Allocator) InitError!Iterator {
        if (native_os == .wasi and !builtin.link_libc) {
            return .{ .inner = try .init(gpa) };
        }
        if (native_os == .windows) {
            return .{ .inner = try .init(gpa, a.vector) };
        }

        return .{ .inner = .init(a) };
    }

    /// Return subsequent argument, or `null` if no more remaining.
    ///
    /// Returned slice is pointing to the iterator's internal buffer.
    /// On Windows, the result is encoded as [WTF-8](https://wtf-8.codeberg.page/).
    /// On other platforms, the result is an opaque sequence of bytes with no particular encoding.
    pub fn next(it: *Iterator) ?[:0]const u8 {
        return it.inner.next();
    }

    /// Parse past 1 argument without capturing it.
    /// Returns `true` if skipped an arg, `false` if we are at the end.
    pub fn skip(it: *Iterator) bool {
        return it.inner.skip();
    }

    /// Required to release resources if the iterator was initialized with
    /// `initAllocator` function.
    pub fn deinit(it: *Iterator) void {
        // Unless we're targeting WASI or Windows, this is a no-op.
        if (native_os == .wasi and !builtin.link_libc) it.inner.deinit();
        if (native_os == .windows) it.inner.deinit();
    }

    /// Iterator that implements the Windows command-line parsing algorithm.
    ///
    /// The implementation is intended to be compatible with the post-2008 C runtime,
    /// but is *not* intended to be compatible with `CommandLineToArgvW` since
    /// `CommandLineToArgvW` uses the pre-2008 parsing rules.
    ///
    /// This iterator faithfully implements the parsing behavior observed from the C runtime with
    /// one exception: if the command-line string is empty, the iterator will immediately complete
    /// without returning any arguments (whereas the C runtime will return a single argument
    /// representing the name of the current executable).
    ///
    /// The essential parts of the algorithm are described in Microsoft's documentation:
    ///
    /// - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/main-function-command-line-args?view=msvc-170#parsing-c-command-line-arguments
    ///
    /// David Deley explains some additional undocumented quirks in great detail:
    ///
    /// - https://daviddeley.com/autohotkey/parameters/parameters.htm#WINCRULES
    pub const Windows = struct {
        allocator: Allocator,
        /// Encoded as WTF-16 LE.
        cmd_line: []const u16,
        index: usize = 0,
        /// Owned by the iterator. Long enough to hold contiguous NUL-terminated slices
        /// of each argument encoded as WTF-8.
        buffer: []u8,
        start: usize = 0,
        end: usize = 0,

        pub const InitError = error{OutOfMemory};

        /// `cmd_line_w` *must* be a WTF16-LE-encoded string.
        ///
        /// The iterator stores and uses `cmd_line_w`, so its memory must be valid for
        /// at least as long as the returned Windows.
        pub fn init(gpa: Allocator, cmd_line_w: []const u16) Windows.InitError!Windows {
            const wtf8_len = std.unicode.calcWtf8Len(cmd_line_w);

            // This buffer must be large enough to contain contiguous NUL-terminated slices
            // of each argument.
            // - During parsing, the length of a parsed argument will always be equal to
            //   to less than its unparsed length
            // - The first argument needs one extra byte of space allocated for its NUL
            //   terminator, but for each subsequent argument the necessary whitespace
            //   between arguments guarantees room for their NUL terminator(s).
            const buffer = try gpa.alloc(u8, wtf8_len + 1);
            errdefer gpa.free(buffer);

            return .{
                .allocator = gpa,
                .cmd_line = cmd_line_w,
                .buffer = buffer,
            };
        }

        /// Returns the next argument and advances the iterator. Returns `null` if at the end of the
        /// command-line string. The iterator owns the returned slice.
        /// The result is encoded as [WTF-8](https://wtf-8.codeberg.page/).
        pub fn next(self: *Windows) ?[:0]const u8 {
            return self.nextWithStrategy(next_strategy);
        }

        /// Skips the next argument and advances the iterator. Returns `true` if an argument was
        /// skipped, `false` if at the end of the command-line string.
        pub fn skip(self: *Windows) bool {
            return self.nextWithStrategy(skip_strategy);
        }

        const next_strategy = struct {
            const T = ?[:0]const u8;

            const eof = null;

            /// Returns '\' if any backslashes are emitted, otherwise returns `last_emitted_code_unit`.
            fn emitBackslashes(self: *Windows, count: usize, last_emitted_code_unit: ?u16) ?u16 {
                for (0..count) |_| {
                    self.buffer[self.end] = '\\';
                    self.end += 1;
                }
                return if (count != 0) '\\' else last_emitted_code_unit;
            }

            /// If `last_emitted_code_unit` and `code_unit` form a surrogate pair, then
            /// the previously emitted high surrogate is overwritten by the codepoint encoded
            /// by the surrogate pair, and `null` is returned.
            /// Otherwise, `code_unit` is emitted and returned.
            fn emitCharacter(self: *Windows, code_unit: u16, last_emitted_code_unit: ?u16) ?u16 {
                // Because we are emitting WTF-8, we need to
                // check to see if we've emitted two consecutive surrogate
                // codepoints that form a valid surrogate pair in order
                // to ensure that we're always emitting well-formed WTF-8
                // (https://wtf-8.codeberg.page/#concatenating).
                //
                // If we do have a valid surrogate pair, we need to emit
                // the UTF-8 sequence for the codepoint that they encode
                // instead of the WTF-8 encoding for the two surrogate pairs
                // separately.
                //
                // This is relevant when dealing with a WTF-16 encoded
                // command line like this:
                // "<0xD801>"<0xDC37>
                // which would get parsed and converted to WTF-8 as:
                // <0xED><0xA0><0x81><0xED><0xB0><0xB7>
                // but instead, we need to recognize the surrogate pair
                // and emit the codepoint it encodes, which in this
                // example is U+10437 (𐐷), which is encoded in UTF-8 as:
                // <0xF0><0x90><0x90><0xB7>
                if (last_emitted_code_unit != null and
                    std.unicode.utf16IsLowSurrogate(code_unit) and
                    std.unicode.utf16IsHighSurrogate(last_emitted_code_unit.?))
                {
                    const codepoint = std.unicode.utf16DecodeSurrogatePair(&.{ last_emitted_code_unit.?, code_unit }) catch unreachable;

                    // Unpaired surrogate is 3 bytes long
                    const dest = self.buffer[self.end - 3 ..];
                    const len = std.unicode.utf8Encode(codepoint, dest) catch unreachable;
                    // All codepoints that require a surrogate pair (> U+FFFF) are encoded as 4 bytes
                    assert(len == 4);
                    self.end += 1;
                    return null;
                }

                const wtf8_len = std.unicode.wtf8Encode(code_unit, self.buffer[self.end..]) catch unreachable;
                self.end += wtf8_len;
                return code_unit;
            }

            fn yieldArg(self: *Windows) [:0]const u8 {
                self.buffer[self.end] = 0;
                const arg = self.buffer[self.start..self.end :0];
                self.end += 1;
                self.start = self.end;
                return arg;
            }
        };

        const skip_strategy = struct {
            const T = bool;

            const eof = false;

            fn emitBackslashes(_: *Windows, _: usize, last_emitted_code_unit: ?u16) ?u16 {
                return last_emitted_code_unit;
            }

            fn emitCharacter(_: *Windows, _: u16, last_emitted_code_unit: ?u16) ?u16 {
                return last_emitted_code_unit;
            }

            fn yieldArg(_: *Windows) bool {
                return true;
            }
        };

        fn nextWithStrategy(self: *Windows, comptime strategy: type) strategy.T {
            var last_emitted_code_unit: ?u16 = null;
            // The first argument (the executable name) uses different parsing rules.
            if (self.index == 0) {
                if (self.cmd_line.len == 0 or self.cmd_line[0] == 0) {
                    // Immediately complete the iterator.
                    // The C runtime would return the name of the current executable here.
                    return strategy.eof;
                }

                var inside_quotes = false;
                while (true) : (self.index += 1) {
                    const char = if (self.index != self.cmd_line.len)
                        std.mem.littleToNative(u16, self.cmd_line[self.index])
                    else
                        0;
                    switch (char) {
                        0 => {
                            return strategy.yieldArg(self);
                        },
                        '"' => {
                            inside_quotes = !inside_quotes;
                        },
                        ' ', '\t' => {
                            if (inside_quotes) {
                                last_emitted_code_unit = strategy.emitCharacter(self, char, last_emitted_code_unit);
                            } else {
                                self.index += 1;
                                return strategy.yieldArg(self);
                            }
                        },
                        else => {
                            last_emitted_code_unit = strategy.emitCharacter(self, char, last_emitted_code_unit);
                        },
                    }
                }
            }

            // Skip spaces and tabs. The iterator completes if we reach the end of the string here.
            while (true) : (self.index += 1) {
                const char = if (self.index != self.cmd_line.len)
                    std.mem.littleToNative(u16, self.cmd_line[self.index])
                else
                    0;
                switch (char) {
                    0 => return strategy.eof,
                    ' ', '\t' => continue,
                    else => break,
                }
            }

            // Parsing rules for subsequent arguments:
            //
            // - The end of the string always terminates the current argument.
            // - When not in 'inside_quotes' mode, a space or tab terminates the current argument.
            // - 2n backslashes followed by a quote emit n backslashes (note: n can be zero).
            //   If in 'inside_quotes' and the quote is immediately followed by a second quote,
            //   one quote is emitted and the other is skipped, otherwise, the quote is skipped
            //   and 'inside_quotes' is toggled.
            // - 2n + 1 backslashes followed by a quote emit n backslashes followed by a quote.
            // - n backslashes not followed by a quote emit n backslashes.
            var backslash_count: usize = 0;
            var inside_quotes = false;
            while (true) : (self.index += 1) {
                const char = if (self.index != self.cmd_line.len)
                    std.mem.littleToNative(u16, self.cmd_line[self.index])
                else
                    0;
                switch (char) {
                    0 => {
                        last_emitted_code_unit = strategy.emitBackslashes(self, backslash_count, last_emitted_code_unit);
                        return strategy.yieldArg(self);
                    },
                    ' ', '\t' => {
                        last_emitted_code_unit = strategy.emitBackslashes(self, backslash_count, last_emitted_code_unit);
                        backslash_count = 0;
                        if (inside_quotes) {
                            last_emitted_code_unit = strategy.emitCharacter(self, char, last_emitted_code_unit);
                        } else return strategy.yieldArg(self);
                    },
                    '"' => {
                        const char_is_escaped_quote = backslash_count % 2 != 0;
                        last_emitted_code_unit = strategy.emitBackslashes(self, backslash_count / 2, last_emitted_code_unit);
                        backslash_count = 0;
                        if (char_is_escaped_quote) {
                            last_emitted_code_unit = strategy.emitCharacter(self, '"', last_emitted_code_unit);
                        } else {
                            if (inside_quotes and
                                self.index + 1 != self.cmd_line.len and
                                std.mem.littleToNative(u16, self.cmd_line[self.index + 1]) == '"')
                            {
                                last_emitted_code_unit = strategy.emitCharacter(self, '"', last_emitted_code_unit);
                                self.index += 1;
                            } else {
                                inside_quotes = !inside_quotes;
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    '\\' => {
                        backslash_count += 1;
                    },
                    else => {
                        last_emitted_code_unit = strategy.emitBackslashes(self, backslash_count, last_emitted_code_unit);
                        backslash_count = 0;
                        last_emitted_code_unit = strategy.emitCharacter(self, char, last_emitted_code_unit);
                    },
                }
            }
        }

        /// Frees the iterator's copy of the command-line string and all previously returned
        /// argument slices.
        pub fn deinit(self: *Windows) void {
            self.allocator.free(self.buffer);
        }
    };

    pub const Posix = struct {
        remaining: Vector,

        pub const InitError = error{};

        pub fn init(a: Args) Posix {
            return .{ .remaining = a.vector };
        }

        pub fn next(it: *Posix) ?[:0]const u8 {
            if (it.remaining.len == 0) return null;
            const arg = it.remaining[0];
            it.remaining = it.remaining[1..];
            return std.mem.sliceTo(arg, 0);
        }

        pub fn skip(it: *Posix) bool {
            if (it.remaining.len == 0) return false;
            it.remaining = it.remaining[1..];
            return true;
        }
    };

    pub const Wasi = struct {
        allocator: Allocator,
        index: usize,
        args: [][:0]u8,

        pub const InitError = error{OutOfMemory} || std.posix.UnexpectedError;

        /// You must call deinit to free the internal buffer of the
        /// iterator after you are done.
        pub fn init(allocator: Allocator) Wasi.InitError!Wasi {
            const fetched_args = try Wasi.internalInit(allocator);
            return Wasi{
                .allocator = allocator,
                .index = 0,
                .args = fetched_args,
            };
        }

        fn internalInit(allocator: Allocator) Wasi.InitError![][:0]u8 {
            var count: usize = undefined;
            var buf_size: usize = undefined;

            switch (std.os.wasi.args_sizes_get(&count, &buf_size)) {
                .SUCCESS => {},
                else => |err| return std.posix.unexpectedErrno(err),
            }

            if (count == 0) {
                return &[_][:0]u8{};
            }

            const argv = try allocator.alloc([*:0]u8, count);
            defer allocator.free(argv);

            const argv_buf = try allocator.alloc(u8, buf_size);

            switch (std.os.wasi.args_get(argv.ptr, argv_buf.ptr)) {
                .SUCCESS => {},
                else => |err| return std.posix.unexpectedErrno(err),
            }

            var result_args = try allocator.alloc([:0]u8, count);
            var i: usize = 0;
            while (i < count) : (i += 1) {
                result_args[i] = std.mem.sliceTo(argv[i], 0);
            }

            return result_args;
        }

        pub fn next(self: *Wasi) ?[:0]const u8 {
            if (self.index == self.args.len) return null;

            const arg = self.args[self.index];
            self.index += 1;
            return arg;
        }

        pub fn skip(self: *Wasi) bool {
            if (self.index == self.args.len) return false;

            self.index += 1;
            return true;
        }

        /// Call to free the internal buffer of the iterator.
        pub fn deinit(self: *Wasi) void {
            // Nothing is allocated when there are no args
            if (self.args.len == 0) return;

            const last_item = self.args[self.args.len - 1];
            const last_byte_addr = @intFromPtr(last_item.ptr) + last_item.len + 1; // null terminated
            const first_item_ptr = self.args[0].ptr;
            const len = last_byte_addr - @intFromPtr(first_item_ptr);
            self.allocator.free(first_item_ptr[0..len]);
            self.allocator.free(self.args);
        }
    };
}