PetscOptionsGetBool#

Gets the Logical (true or false) value for a particular option in the database.

Synopsis#

#include "petscsys.h"   
PetscErrorCode PetscOptionsGetBool(PetscOptions options, const char pre[], const char name[], PetscBool *ivalue, PetscBool *set)

Not Collective

Input Parameters#

options - options database, use NULL for default global database
pre - the string to prepend to the name or NULL
name - the option one is seeking

Output Parameters#

ivalue - the logical value to return
set - PETSC_TRUE if found, else PETSC_FALSE

Notes#

TRUE, true, YES, yes, nostring, and 1 all translate to PETSC_TRUE FALSE, false, NO, no, and 0 all translate to PETSC_FALSE

If the option is given, but no value is provided, then ivalue and set are both given the value PETSC_TRUE. That is -requested_bool is equivalent to -requested_bool true

If the user does not supply the option at all ivalue is NOT changed. Thus you should ALWAYS initialize the ivalue if you access it without first checking if the set flag is true.