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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">  Hell Hong,<br>
              Is there a way to directly query the options database to
      get the value of Petsc options?  This is related to the discussion
      here:
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      .  I though PetscOptionsGetString and PetscOptionsSetValue would
      provide this capability, but now it seems like petsc options
      cannot be accessed.<br>
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          Jared Crean<br>
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      On 11/01/2015 10:19 AM, Hong wrote:<br>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">Jared :</div>
          <div class="gmail_quote">Either call KSPSetPCSide() or change </div>
          <div class="gmail_quote">const char name[] = "-ksp_pc_side"</div>
          <div class="gmail_quote">to a non-petsc option name, e.g.,
            "-my_ksp_pc_side".</div>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">Hong</div>
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0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
                  I am trying to use PetscOptionsGetString to retrieve
              the value of an option in the options database, but the
              value returned in the last argument indicates the option
              was not found.   In the attached code (a modified version
              of ksp example 2), the string "-ksp_pc_side" is passed in
              as the argument name. If I run the code as<br>
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                  ./jc2 -pc_type ilu -ksp_pc_side right<br>
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                  I get the output:<br>
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                  option -ksp_pc_side was found<br>
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                  from line 71 of the file.  Petsc does not complain of
              unused options when the program finishes.  Am I using this
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                      Jared Crean<br>
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