Modern C for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C Programming Language

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S. DmitrovićModern C for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6643-4_11

11. Command-Line Arguments

Slobodan Dmitrović¹  

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

There is another main function signature that allows us to work with the command-line arguments. These are arguments we can pass to our executable file in the command line. Example:

myexe param1 param2

Here, the myexe is the name of our executable file, and param1 and param2 are some arbitrary arguments we pass in. The function main that allows us to parse these arguments has the following signature:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])

The argc is the number of command-line arguments we pass to our executable. The argv is the pointer to an array of strings that represent the ...