Re: Parsing options in the same way they are passed to main

From: Ben Pfaff (blp_at_cs.stanford.edu)
Date: 12/13/03 

Date: 12 Dec 2003 20:13:36 -0800

Jeff Rodriguez <newsgroup1@gurugeek.EXAMPLENOSPAM.com> writes:

> If main is prototyped as:
> int main(int argc, char *argv[]);
>
> You will end up with a bunch of arguments in *argv, and the number in
> argc. Now what I want to do is emulate that same action on a
> string. Say for example I have:
>
> char *command = "./blah --arg1 --arg2 123 -x --arg2=w00t"
>
> How do I acheive the same effect as in main()?

It depends on the operating system, shell, and other things. If
all you want to do is to break apart the string into words at
white space, I suggest you just write code to do it. It's not
too hard. 

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 algorithms with exponential or better O-notations
 are actually linear with a large constant."
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