From 737bc761f157f1d8ac66661d0f14b29d81ce0e63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:35:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] normalise: support NORM-OPTIONS

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
---
 normalise | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/normalise b/normalise
index df9e467..9703a3a 100755
--- a/normalise
+++ b/normalise
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#
+# usage:
+#  normalise [NORM-OPTIONS...] [--] INPUT-FILES...
+#
+# NORM-OPTIONS are
+#   +OPTNAME[=OPTVAL]           Election option
+#   CAND=[DESCRIPTION]
+#   +CAND+OPTNAME[=OPTVAL]      Candidate option
+#   --                          End of options to normalise
+#   -...                        Reserved for future options to normalise
 
 use strict;
 
@@ -7,6 +17,7 @@ our %candidates; # $candidates{CAND}{Desc}, {Opts}[]
 our @ballots;
 
 my $candvoter_re = '\w+';
+my $opt_re = '\w+(?:=\S*)?';
 
 sub badinput ($) {
     die "bad input: $_[0]";
@@ -45,6 +56,25 @@ sub setcanddesc ($$) {
     }
 }
 
+while (@ARGV) {
+    $_ = shift @ARGV;
+    if (m/^--$/) {
+	last;
+    } elsif (m/^(\w+)=([^|]+)$/) {
+	setcanddesc $1, $2;
+    } elsif (m/^\+($opt_re)$/) {
+	push @options, $1;
+    } elsif (m/^\+(\w+)\+($opt_re)$/) {
+	push @{ $candidates{$1}{Opts} }, $2;
+    } elsif (m/^-/) {
+	die "unknown normalise option \`$_'\n";
+    } else {
+	# oh!
+	unshift @ARGV, $_;
+	last;
+    }
+}
+
 while (<>) {
     next unless m/\S/;
     next if m/^\#/;
-- 
2.30.2