EC_EDITLINE_PARSE(3)

💖 EC_EDITLINE_PARSE(3) 💖

part of the Libecoli Programmer's Manual era, bestie 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ec_editline_parse — grab a line from your user interactively (completion included, we love that for us), then parse it. the full package deal 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <ecoli/editline.h>

struct ec_pnode * ec_editline_parse(
    struct ec_editline   *editline   /* The pointer to the ec_editline structure. */
);

that's the whole vibe right there 💅

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Okay so bestie, picture this: it's basically ec_editline_gets() (iconic behavior, we stan), except — and this is the main character moment — the string result gets parsed using the grammar node once it succeeds. ✨

Like, gets() hands you the raw line, and this one hands you the glow-up. Same energy, more power. 🫶

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

You get back an allocated ec_pnode holding the parse result. 🎁

Real talk though: it must be freed by the caller using ec_pnode_free(). No leaking, bestie, that's not the vibe. Memory hygiene is highkey iconic. 🧚

And on error? You get NULL. That's it. That's the whole thing. no cap. 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Squad goals, all of them — go read these too, iykyk:

• ec_editline_get_el(3)
• ec_editline_set_prompt(3)
• ec_editline_complete(3)
• ec_editline_set_prompt_esc(3)
• ec_editline_free(3)
• ec_editline_term_size(3)
• ec_editline_gets(3)
• ec_editline_interact(3)
• ec_editline_set_node(3)
• ec_editline_set_history(3)
• ec_editline(3)
• ec_editline_get_node(3)
• ec_editline_curline(3)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry.

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that fr fr 🍓

this little masterpiece came to you from libecoli and it's dated 2026-06-11 — manifesting it ages as gracefully as it deserves 💖✨ mwah, bye bestie! 🎀🦋