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

[Jeff Sadowski]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Jeff <jffry at posteo.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Thank you, I understand both well I should have not trouble converting it.
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Ahh, I see ignore the common options and put them in manually. clear way of
getting around the issue. ;-)

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