[petsc-dev] PetscOptionsGetString

[Satish Balay]

Ah - missed the 'one char' part..

I guess you'll have to do:

char Mode [2];
PetscOptionsGetString(PETSC_NULL,"-Mode",Mode,2,&flag);

(and use Mode[0])

Satish


On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Satish Balay wrote:

> Hm - if you have:
> 
> char Mode [64];
> 
> you should be using:
> 
> PetscOptionsGetString(PETSC_NULL,"-Mode",&Mode,64,&flag);
> 
> You can check an example - say src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex10.c
> 
> Satish
> 
> 
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Shiyuan wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > In the version of 3.1-p5, PetscOptionsGetString() can be used to get a char
> > input. It seems that it doesn't work any more in development version.
> >  PetscOptionsGetString(PETSC_NULL,"-Mode",&Mode,1,&flag);
> > This gives me a \0. How can I get the input of only one character in dev?
> > Thanks.
> > 
> 
>