zig-inquirer

A collection of utilities for prompting information from the user on the CLI

Adapted from https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js

Run example

zig build run

Screenshots

Usage

• pub fn answer(writer, reader, comptime prompt: []const u8, value: []const u8) []const u8
  • Prints just the done string.
• pub fn forEnum(writer, reader, comptime prompt: []const u8, alloc: *std.mem.Allocator, comptime options: enum, default: ?options) !options
  • Accepts an enum and prompts the user to pick on of the fields.
• pub fn forString(writer, reader, comptime prompt: []const u8, alloc: *std.mem.Allocator, default: ?[]const u8) ![]const u8
  • Base function, asks prompt and returns non-empty answer.
• pub fn forConfirm(writer, reader, comptime prompt: []const u8, alloc: *std.mem.Allocator) !bool
  • Calls forEnum with y/n

TODO

• number (current implementation causes compiler crash)
• list with strings
• string password
• long list with autocomplete
• date
• time

Package Contents

• .gitattributes
• licenses.txt
• LICENSE
• build.zig
• src/lib.zig
• src/main.zig
• test.zig
• README.md
• zig.mod
• .gitignore

Dependencies

• git https://github.com/nektro/zig-ansi

History

	Published On	Tree @ Commit	Size
v0.16	Wed, 21 May 2025 20:33:55 UTC	Tree	10.715 KB
v0.15	Sun, 16 Feb 2025 06:11:50 UTC	Tree	10.291 KB
v0.14	Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:57:42 UTC	Tree	10.057 KB
v0.13	Sun, 29 Dec 2024 03:34:43 UTC	Tree	9.435 KB
v0.12	Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:56:28 UTC	Tree	9.342 KB
v0.11	Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:14:09 UTC	Tree	9.544 KB
v0.10	Sat, 07 Sep 2024 23:12:44 UTC	Tree	9.563 KB
v0.9	Wed, 05 Jun 2024 08:39:30 UTC	Tree	9.542 KB
v0.8	Sat, 04 May 2024 20:20:49 UTC	Tree	9.631 KB
v0.7	Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:39:57 UTC	Tree	9.507 KB
v0.6	Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:14:57 UTC	Tree	9.502 KB
v0.5	Fri, 24 Dec 2021 19:42:50 UTC	Tree	9.501 KB
v0.4	Tue, 03 Aug 2021 21:35:46 UTC	Tree	9.505 KB
v0.3	Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:56:35 UTC	Tree	9.273 KB
v0.2	Thu, 29 Jul 2021 11:41:56 UTC	Tree	9.211 KB
v0.1	Thu, 29 Jul 2021 11:00:27 UTC	Tree	9.008 KB