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Command Line Arguments

What is Command Line Arguments?
What are its uses?
Where we have to use this?
Asked by: kichha | Member Since Jan-2008 | Asked on: Jul 28th, 2008

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abhishekrane

Answered On : Dec 9th, 2008

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command line arguments are those which can be passed to the main method as parameters and use those values in the main method before executing it.

  
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Abidullah

Answered On : May 21st, 2010

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Command line arguments are used to provide input through console to the main function. The inputs values generally store into a string array (usually args[])


Example:
void main (String args[])
{
for (int i=0; i<args.length; i++)
{
print args[i]
}
}

for the program above if complied with a name "program", can be executed like,

directory:> program argument1 arg2 arg 3
in this case it will have 4 arguments.
args[0]=argument1
args[1]=arg2
args[2]=arg
args[3]=3

because the argument values are assumed to be separated by space.

Some compliers support quotation marks to enclose space key e.g "arg 3" would be a single argument because its enclosed in quotations marking the start and end of string.

Remember  command line args are always only strings. If a numeric value is passed as an argument it would have to be explicitly type-casted/parsed/converted from string to a numeric value.

  
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