Re: how to write a program that takes arguments from commandline?

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:23:41 +0100, in comp.lang.c , Martin Jørgensen
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Keith Thompson wrote:

The arguments aren't necessarily space-separated; that depends on the
mechanism (for example, a shell) used to invoke your program.

If the arguments isn't space-separated, how else would they be separated?

colons, tabs, semicolons, slashes, any number of possibities.
Different OSes do different things.
Mark McIntyre
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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
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