[sane-devel] parsing help output of scanimage there has got to be a better way?

Jeff Sadowski jeff.sadowski at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 20:56:21 UTC 2017


On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Jeff <jffry at posteo.net> wrote:

> On 18/09/17 21:28, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> > The extremely hard part is coming up with a way to parse the stdout of
> > "scanimage -h"
> > Is there a good way to to this with regular expressions or something.
>
> If you look at the source of gscan2pdf
> (https://sourceforge.net/p/gscan2pdf/code/ci/master/tree/
> lib/Gscan2pdf/Scanner/Options.pm),
> the _parse_scanimage_output() method does what you want.
>
> Thank you, I understand both well I should have not trouble converting it.


> It is written in Perl, but PHP is not very different.
>
> Regards
>
> Jeff
>
>
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