Thread: * quick question *

mmmm....I have a real quick question I hope someone can answer within an hour and a half....heh....here's the thing......

We need to create a way to put our code into "silent mode"....if the user passes a "q" to the program through the command line, then none of the printf's need to be shown....only the scanf's......it's supposed to show nothing except when they choose to "PRINT" the records.....so I figured the easy way to do it would be like this:

Code:

int silent=0;

if (silent=1)
{
    printf("a bunch of junk");
}

    scanf("%c",&character);

something of the nature....put a check to see if it has been flagged as silent...problem is I can't get my char *argv working...at the very beginning of the program i'm trying something like:

Code:

if (char *argv[1]=='q')
{
     silent = 1;
}

but that's not setting it equal to one...or something isn't going right....can someone tell me how to make this successfully set to 1 if the user passes a 'q'? thanks.

if (char *argv[1]=='q')

the above line is comparing 'q' to an address. Remember the char *argv[] is an array is char pointers.

Try this:
if(argv[1][0] == 'q')

that code works fine when i pass a q.....but if i don't pass anything the code flips out and shut down....suggestions??