Thanks Dave !
Your trick worked for me exactly as I needed.
Regards
-Prashant
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 11:39 PM, Dave Barach (dbarach)
wrote:
> Try this in mycmd:
>
> u8 * line;
> if (unformat (input, "%U", unformat_line, &line))
>process_line;
>
> Note that line will be a true u8 * vector: no null-termination. If you need
> null termination: vec_add1 (line, 0);
>
> Remember to vec_free(...) it unless you're planning to keep it.
>
> HTH... Dave
>
> -Original Message-
> From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io On Behalf Of Prashant
> Upadhyaya
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 1:53 PM
> To: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io
> Subject: [vpp-dev] Regarding CLI command parsing
>
> Hi,
>
> I am relatively new to this and trying to learn the art of using
> format/unformat.
> My requirement is that if my command is "mycmd" followed by some string
> (which may have spaces in it), then I should be able to read the entire
> string up to the \n character typed by the user.
>
> Eg. if the command is typed like
>
> mycmd foo1 foo2 foo3
>
> (the "path" of the VLIB_CLI_COMMAND is "mycmd") Then in my CLI callback
> function, I want to be able to get the string
> "foo1 foo2 foo3" setup in a u8* variable. If the leading and trailing spaces
> are trimmed, I am fine by that. I am looking for the correct way to call the
> unformat functions in my command callback function to achieve this.
>
> Regards
> -Prashant
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