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command line arguments

Command-line arguments allow users to provide information to a program at runtime through the command line, passed to the main function as parameters. The main function in C++ can be defined to accept these arguments using 'int main(int argc, char* argv[])', where 'argc' counts the arguments and 'argv' holds the argument values. An example program demonstrates how to print the number of arguments and their values using a loop.

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command line arguments

Command-line arguments allow users to provide information to a program at runtime through the command line, passed to the main function as parameters. The main function in C++ can be defined to accept these arguments using 'int main(int argc, char* argv[])', where 'argc' counts the arguments and 'argv' holds the argument values. An example program demonstrates how to print the number of arguments and their values using a loop.

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command-line arguments

command-line arguments allow users to pass information to a program at runtime via the command
line. These arguments are passed to the program's main function as parameters.

The main function in C++ can take the following form to handle command-line arguments:

Syntax

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


// Your code here
}

Parameters

argc (argument count):

An integer that holds the number of command-line arguments passed to the program.
Includes the name of the program as the first argument, so argc is always at least 1.

argv (argument vector):

An array of C-style strings (char*) representing the arguments.


argv[0] contains the name or path of the program.
argv[1] to argv[argc - 1] contain the additional arguments.

Example Program

Here is an example that demonstrates command-line arguments:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

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


cout << "Number of arguments: " << argc << endl;

for (int i = 0; i < argc; i++) {


cout << "Argument " << i << ": " << argv[i] << endl;
}

return 0;
}

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