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• Submitted on: 2008-04-16 02:18:50

• Submitted By: Shekhar

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Recently in a couple class projects I have needed to use command line arguments, and the first time dealing with these can be a little confusing. So here is four short programs that simply output these arguments.

What I mean by this is that I need to accept a string while I am calling the program name. For example I am running my program called printString and I want it to display the text hello. So I run it like so

./printString.c hello    More detail...

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