GLib.OptionContext.prototype.parse

function parse(argv: Array(String)): [ok: Boolean, argv: Array(String)] {
    // Gjs wrapper for g_option_context_parse()
}
  

Parses the command line arguments, recognizing options which have been added to context. A side-effect of calling this function is that GLib.set_prgname will be called.

If the parsing is successful, any parsed arguments are removed from the array and argc and argv are updated accordingly. A '--' option is stripped from argv unless there are unparsed options before and after it, or some of the options after it start with '-'. In case of an error, argc and argv are left unmodified.

If automatic `--help` support is enabled (see GLib.OptionContext.prototype.set_help_enabled), and the argv array contains one of the recognized help options, this function will produce help output to stdout and call `exit (0)`.

Note that function depends on the [current locale][setlocale] for automatic character set conversion of string and filename arguments.

Since 2.6