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+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+--                                                                          --
+--                       GNAT ncurses Binding Samples                       --
+--                                                                          --
+--                                 ncurses                                  --
+--                                                                          --
+--                                 B O D Y                                  --
+--                                                                          --
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Copyright (c) 2000-2004,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              --
+--                                                                          --
+-- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  --
+-- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            --
+-- "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including      --
+-- without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,      --
+-- distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell       --
+-- copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is    --
+-- furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:                 --
+--                                                                          --
+-- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included  --
+-- in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.                   --
+--                                                                          --
+-- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS  --
+-- OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF               --
+-- MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.   --
+-- IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,   --
+-- DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR    --
+-- OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR    --
+-- THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.                               --
+--                                                                          --
+-- Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright   --
+-- holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the     --
+-- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written       --
+-- authorization.                                                           --
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+--  Author: Eugene V. Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com> 2000
+--  Version Control
+--  $Revision: 1.7 $
+--  $Date: 2008/07/26 18:46:44 $
+--  Binding Version 01.00
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+--  A simplified version of the  GNU getopt function
+--  copyright Free Software Foundtion
+
+with Ada.Strings.Fixed;
+with Ada.Strings.Bounded;
+with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
+
+package body ncurses2.getopt is
+
+   nextchar : Natural := 0;
+
+   --  Ncurses doesn't use the non option elements so we are spared
+   --  the job of computing those.
+
+   --  also the user is not allowed to modify argv or argc
+   --  Doing so is Erroneous execution.
+
+   --  longoptions are not handled.
+
+   procedure Qgetopt (retval : out Integer;
+                      argc : Integer;
+                      argv : stringfunc;
+                        --  argv will be the Argument function.
+                      optstring : String;
+                      optind : in out Integer;
+                        --  ignored for ncurses, must be initialized to 1 by
+                        --  the caller
+                      Optarg : out stringa
+                        --  a garbage colector would be useful here.
+                     ) is
+
+      package BS is new Ada.Strings.Bounded.Generic_Bounded_Length (200);
+      use BS;
+      optargx : Bounded_String;
+   begin
+
+      if argc < optind then
+         retval := -1;
+         return;
+      end if;
+
+      optargx := To_Bounded_String ("");
+
+      if nextchar = 0 then
+
+         if argv (optind) = "--" then
+                           --  the rest are non-options, we ignore them
+            retval := -1;
+            return;
+         end if;
+
+         if argv (optind)(1) /= '-' or argv (optind)'Length = 1 then
+            optind := optind + 1;
+            Optarg := new String'(argv (optind));
+            retval := 1;
+            return;
+         end if;
+
+         nextchar := 2; -- skip the one hyphen.
+      end if;
+
+      --  Look at and handle the next short option-character.
+      declare
+         c : Character := argv (optind) (nextchar);
+         temp : constant Natural :=
+           Ada.Strings.Fixed.Index (optstring, String'(1 => c));
+      begin
+         if temp = 0 or c = ':' then
+            Put_Line (Standard_Error,
+                      argv (optind) & ": invalid option -- " & c);
+            c := '?';
+            return;
+         end if;
+
+         if optstring (temp + 1) = ':' then
+            if optstring (temp + 2) = ':' then
+               --  This is an option that accepts an argument optionally.
+               if nextchar /= argv (optind)'Length then
+                  optargx := To_Bounded_String
+                    (argv (optind) (nextchar .. argv (optind)'Length));
+               else
+                  Optarg := null;
+               end if;
+            else
+               --  This is an option that requires an argument.
+               if nextchar /= argv (optind)'Length then
+                  optargx := To_Bounded_String
+                    (argv (optind) (nextchar .. argv (optind)'Length));
+                  optind := optind + 1;
+               elsif optind = argc then
+                  Put_Line (Standard_Error,
+                            argv (optind) &
+                            ": option requires an argument -- " & c);
+                  if optstring (optstring'First) = ':'  then
+                     c := ':';
+                  else
+                     c := '?';
+                  end if;
+               else
+                  --  increment it again when taking next ARGV-elt as argument.
+                  optind := optind + 1;
+                  optargx := To_Bounded_String (argv (optind));
+                  optind := optind + 1;
+               end if;
+            end if;
+            nextchar := 0;
+         else -- no argument for the option
+            if nextchar = argv (optind)'Length then
+               optind := optind + 1;
+               nextchar := 0;
+            else
+               nextchar := nextchar + 1;
+            end if;
+         end if;
+
+         retval := Character'Pos (c);
+         Optarg := new String'(To_String (optargx));
+         return;
+      end;
+   end Qgetopt;
+
+end ncurses2.getopt;