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Return the value of the option having the specified `name`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balcl_commandline.h>`

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bool
theBool(std::string_view const& name) const;
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== Description

The value returned matches that returned by `isSpecified(name)`. The behavior is undefined unless this command‐line object `isParsed()`, `hasOption(name)`, and `OptionType::e_BOOL == type(name)`.

== Return Value

value of the named option

== Parameters

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| Name| Description
| *name*
| option name to look up
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