Thread: Command Line Arguments

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    Command Line Arguments

    Getting segmentation fault errors and I can't figure out why.

    All I'm currently doing is asking for a command line argument and trying to print the data.

    Code:
    int main(char *fileName){
    
    	printf("Welcome\n\n");
    
    	
    
    	//if (strlen(fileName) > 0){
    
    	//	file = fopen(fileName, "r");
    
    	//}
    
    	printf("%s", fileName);
    }
    Thanks in advance,
    Lang

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    The first parm is the count of args (an int) and the second is a pointer to an array of strings.

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    Thanks for the help you two! I appreciate it.

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    and dont forget to close the file =)

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    Heres how i process my command line arguments:

    Code:
    int main(int argc, char* argv[])
    {
        char fName[1024] = "";
        int width = 0;
        int height = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i < argc; ++i)
        {
            if(argv[i][0] == '-')
            {
                switch(argv[i][1])
                {
                    case 'w':
                    case 'W':
                        width = atoi(argv[++i]);
                    break;
    
                    case 'h':
                    case 'H':
                        height = atoi(argv[++i]);
                    break;
                }
            //If it is not a command option (an option starting with '-'),
            //its probably the name of the file that was dragged onto the exe
            } else if(i == 1)
                strncpy(fName, argv[i], sizeof(fName));
        }
        printf("File: &#37;s\n", fName);
        printf("Width: %i\n", width);
        printf("Height: %i\n", height);
    
        if(strlen(fName))
        {
            //Do something
        }
        return 1;
    }
    This lets you process command lines such as:

    c:\myApp.exe test.txt -w 1024 -h 768
    c:\myApp -w 1024 -h 768
    c:\myApp test.txt
    Last edited by 39ster; 03-29-2008 at 02:18 AM.

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    if user by mistake does not put anything after -h or -w - you will get out of bounds access to the argv array

    when you increase you i var - check that it is still less than argc

    ps. Note also that strncpy
    If count is less than or equal to the length of strSource, a null character is not appended automatically to the copied string.
    so you better do it yourself
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    except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
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    Does char fName[1024] = ""; set all the elements to 0?

    EDIT: I just tried
    Code:
        for(unsigned int i = 0; i < sizeof(fName); ++i)
            printf("&#37;i\n", fName[i]);
    And it does.

    Ok i know use this:

    Code:
    int main(int argc, char* argv[])
    {
        char fName[1024] = "";
        int width = 0;
        int height = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i < argc; ++i)
        {
            if(argv[i][0] == '-')
            {
                switch(argv[i][1])
                {
                    case 'w':
                    case 'W':
                        if(++i < argc)
                          width = atoi(argv[i]);
                    break;
    
                    case 'h':
                    case 'H':
                        if(++i < argc)
                          height = atoi(argv[i]);
                    break;
                }
            //If it is not a command option (an option starting with '-'),
            //its probably the name of the file that was dragged onto the exe
            } else if(i == 1)
                strncpy(fName, argv[i], sizeof(fName));
        }
        printf("File: %s\n", fName);
        printf("Width: %i\n", width);
        printf("Height: %i\n", height);
    
        if(strlen(fName))
        {
            //Do something
        }
        return 1;
    }
    Last edited by 39ster; 03-29-2008 at 02:34 AM.

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    And it does.

    Ok i know use this:
    still - when user enters string more than 1024 char - your strncpy will overwrite the whole array leaving it not nul-terminated
    All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
    except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
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