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# PetscOptionsString

Gets the string value for a particular option in the database.

### Synopsis

    #include "petscsys.h"
    PetscErrorCode  PetscOptionsString_Private(PetscOptionItems *PetscOptionsObject,const char opt[],const char text[],const char man[],const char currentvalue[],char value[],size_t len,PetscBool  *set)

Logically Collective on the communicator passed in PetscOptionsBegin()

### Input Parameters

| opt | - option name
| text | - short string that describes the option
| man | - manual page with additional information on option
| currentvalue | - the current value; caller is responsible for setting this value correctly. This is not used to set value
| len | - length of the result string including null terminator

### Output Parameter

| value | - the value to return
| flg | - PETSC_TRUE if found, else PETSC_FALSE

Notes: Must be between a PetscOptionsBegin() and a PetscOptionsEnd()

Even if the user provided no string (for example -optionname -someotheroption) the flag is set to PETSC_TRUE (and the string is fulled with nulls).

### See Also

PetscOptionsGetReal(), PetscOptionsHasName(), PetscOptionsGetString(), PetscOptionsGetInt(NULL,),
PetscOptionsGetIntArray(), PetscOptionsGetRealArray(), PetscOptionsBool() PetscOptionsInt(), PetscOptionsReal(), PetscOptionsBool(), PetscOptionsName(), PetscOptionsBegin(), PetscOptionsEnd(), PetscOptionsHead(), PetscOptionsStringArray(),PetscOptionsRealArray(), PetscOptionsScalar(), PetscOptionsBoolGroupBegin(), PetscOptionsBoolGroup(), PetscOptionsBoolGroupEnd(), PetscOptionsFList(), PetscOptionsEList()

Level:beginner
Location: src/sys/objects/aoptions.c
Index of all Sys routines
Table of Contents for all manual pages
Index of all manual pages

### Examples

src/vec/is/sf/examples/tutorials/ex1.c.html
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src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex12.c.html
src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex15.c.html
src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex48.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex9.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex10.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex11.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex14.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex31.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/extchem.c.html