petsc-3.3-p7 2013-05-11

PetscOptionsList

Puts a list of option values that a single one may be selected from

Synopsis

#include "petscsys.h"   
PetscErrorCode  PetscOptionsList(const char opt[],const char ltext[],const char man[],PetscFList list,const char defaultv[],char value[],size_t len,PetscBool  *set)
Logically Collective on the communicator passed in PetscOptionsBegin()

Input Parameters

opt - option name
text - short string that describes the option
man - manual page with additional information on option
list - the possible choices
defaultv - the default (current) value
len - the length of the character array value

Output Parameter

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

Notes: Must be between a PetscOptionsBegin() and a PetscOptionsEnd()

See PetscOptionsEList() for when the choices are given in a string array

To get a listing of all currently specified options, see PetscOptionsView() or PetscOptionsGetAll()

See Also

PetscOptionsGetInt(), PetscOptionsGetReal(),
PetscOptionsHasName(), PetscOptionsGetIntArray(), PetscOptionsGetRealArray(), PetscOptionsBool(), PetscOptionsName(), PetscOptionsBegin(), PetscOptionsEnd(), PetscOptionsHead(), PetscOptionsStringArray(),PetscOptionsRealArray(), PetscOptionsScalar(), PetscOptionsBoolGroupBegin(), PetscOptionsBoolGroup(), PetscOptionsBoolGroupEnd(), PetscOptionsList(), PetscOptionsEList(), PetscOptionsEnum()

Level:intermediate
Location:
src/sys/objects/aoptions.c
Index of all Sys routines
Table of Contents for all manual pages
Index of all manual pages

Examples

src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex48.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex8.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex9.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex14.c.html