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+#ifndef INCLUDE_examples_args_h__
+#define INCLUDE_examples_args_h__
+
+/**
+ * Argument-processing helper structure
+ */
+struct args_info {
+	int    argc;
+	char **argv;
+	int    pos;
+	int    opts_done : 1; /**< Did we see a -- separator */
+};
+#define ARGS_INFO_INIT { argc, argv, 0, 0 }
+#define ARGS_CURRENT(args) args->argv[args->pos]
+
+/**
+ * Check if a string has the given prefix.  Returns 0 if not prefixed
+ * or the length of the prefix if it is.
+ */
+extern size_t is_prefixed(const char *str, const char *pfx);
+
+/**
+ * Match an integer string, returning 1 if matched, 0 if not.
+ */
+extern int is_integer(int *out, const char *str, int allow_negative);
+
+/**
+ * Check current `args` entry against `opt` string.  If it matches
+ * exactly, take the next arg as a string; if it matches as a prefix with
+ * an equal sign, take the remainder as a string; if value not supplied,
+ * default value `def` will be given. otherwise return 0.
+ */
+extern int optional_str_arg(
+	const char **out, struct args_info *args, const char *opt, const char *def);
+
+/**
+ * Check current `args` entry against `opt` string.  If it matches
+ * exactly, take the next arg as a string; if it matches as a prefix with
+ * an equal sign, take the remainder as a string; otherwise return 0.
+ */
+extern int match_str_arg(
+	const char **out, struct args_info *args, const char *opt);
+
+/**
+ * Check current `args` entry against `opt` string parsing as uint16.  If
+ * `opt` matches exactly, take the next arg as a uint16_t value; if `opt`
+ * is a prefix (equal sign optional), take the remainder of the arg as a
+ * uint16_t value; otherwise return 0.
+ */
+extern int match_uint16_arg(
+	uint16_t *out, struct args_info *args, const char *opt);
+
+/**
+ * Check current `args` entry against `opt` string parsing as uint32.  If
+ * `opt` matches exactly, take the next arg as a uint16_t value; if `opt`
+ * is a prefix (equal sign optional), take the remainder of the arg as a
+ * uint32_t value; otherwise return 0.
+ */
+extern int match_uint32_arg(
+	uint32_t *out, struct args_info *args, const char *opt);
+
+/**
+ * Check current `args` entry against `opt` string parsing as int.  If
+ * `opt` matches exactly, take the next arg as an int value; if it matches
+ * as a prefix (equal sign optional), take the remainder of the arg as a
+ * int value; otherwise return 0.
+ */
+extern int match_int_arg(
+	int *out, struct args_info *args, const char *opt, int allow_negative);
+
+/**
+ * Check current `args` entry against a "bool" `opt` (ie. --[no-]progress).
+ * If `opt` matches positively, out will be set to 1, or if `opt` matches
+ * negatively, out will be set to 0, and in both cases 1 will be returned.
+ * If neither the positive or the negative form of opt matched, out will be -1,
+ * and 0 will be returned.
+ */
+extern int match_bool_arg(int *out, struct args_info *args, const char *opt);
+
+/**
+ * Check if we're processing past the single -- separator
+ */
+extern int match_arg_separator(struct args_info *args);
+
+/**
+ * Consume all remaining arguments in a git_strarray
+ */
+extern void strarray_from_args(git_strarray *array, struct args_info *args);
+
+#endif