---
name: "optionPrintVersionAndReturn"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "autogen"
version: "5.18.16-6"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/optionPrintVersionAndReturn"
---

# optionPrintVersionAndReturn(3)

Print the program version

## NAME

optionPrintVersionAndReturn - Print the program version

## SYNOPSIS

\#include \<*your-opts.h*\>\
 cc \[...\] -o outfile infile.c -l**opts** \[...\]

void **optionPrintVersionAndReturn**(tOptions \* *opts*, tOptDesc \* *od*);

## DESCRIPTION

This routine will print the version to stdout and return instead of exiting.  Please see the source for the **print\_ver** funtion for details on selecting how verbose to be after this function returns.

- *opts*

  program options descriptor

- *od*

  the descriptor for this arg

## SEE ALSO

The *info* documentation for the -l*opts* library.\
 [ao\_string\_tokenize(3)](/ao_string_tokenize/3.md), [configFileLoad(3)](/configFileLoad/3.md), [optionFileLoad(3)](/optionFileLoad/3.md), [optionFindNextValue(3)](/optionFindNextValue/3.md), [optionFindValue(3)](/optionFindValue/3.md), [optionFree(3)](/optionFree/3.md), [optionGetValue(3)](/optionGetValue/3.md), [optionLoadLine(3)](/optionLoadLine/3.md), [optionMemberList(3)](/optionMemberList/3.md), [optionNextValue(3)](/optionNextValue/3.md), [optionOnlyUsage(3)](/optionOnlyUsage/3.md), [optionPrintVersion(3)](/optionPrintVersion/3.md), [optionProcess(3)](/optionProcess/3.md), [optionRestore(3)](/optionRestore/3.md), [optionSaveFile(3)](/optionSaveFile/3.md), [optionSaveState(3)](/optionSaveState/3.md), [optionUnloadNested(3)](/optionUnloadNested/3.md), [optionVersion(3)](/optionVersion/3.md), [strequate(3)](/strequate/3.md), [streqvcmp(3)](/streqvcmp/3.md), [streqvmap(3)](/streqvmap/3.md), [strneqvcmp(3)](/strneqvcmp/3.md), [strtransform(3)](/strtransform/3.md),