extern "C" {
#endif
+#include <rte_compat.h>
+
/** Maximum number of key/value associations */
#define RTE_KVARGS_MAX 32
struct rte_kvargs *rte_kvargs_parse(const char *args,
const char *const valid_keys[]);
+/**
+ * Allocate a rte_kvargs and store key/value associations from a string.
+ * This version will consider any byte from valid_ends as a possible
+ * terminating character, and will not parse beyond any of their occurrence.
+ *
+ * The function allocates and fills an rte_kvargs structure from a given
+ * string whose format is key1=value1,key2=value2,...
+ *
+ * The structure can be freed with rte_kvargs_free().
+ *
+ * @param args
+ * The input string containing the key/value associations
+ *
+ * @param valid_keys
+ * A list of valid keys (table of const char *, the last must be NULL).
+ * This argument is ignored if NULL
+ *
+ * @param valid_ends
+ * Acceptable terminating characters.
+ * If NULL, the behavior is the same as ``rte_kvargs_parse``.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * - A pointer to an allocated rte_kvargs structure on success
+ * - NULL on error
+ */
+__rte_experimental
+struct rte_kvargs *rte_kvargs_parse_delim(const char *args,
+ const char *const valid_keys[],
+ const char *valid_ends);
+
/**
* Free a rte_kvargs structure
*