Thread: main function arguments

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    main function arguments

    my main fucntion is declared as follows:

    int main(int argc, char **argv)

    the name of the program is crypt.exe .. and the two arguments are supposed to be p and q which are integers...

    argv[1] is p and argv[2] is q.. i got that much.. but i need to declare a new int so that i can make the int types the same number as what the chars are... so if i type: crypt 5 12 ..

    i can have int *p and int*q equal to 5 and 12 .. I tried so many different things and it kept spitting back big numbers, can anyone else help?

    John

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    If I'm getting this straight, you want to pass two values to your program and then create arrays of those sizes:
    Code:
    #include <cstdlib>
    
    int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
      int *p;
      int *q;
    
      if (argc == 3) {
        p = new int[ std::atoi(argv[1]) ];
        q = new int[ std::atoi(argv[2]) ];
        ...
      }
    }
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    There's nothing about arrays in there...

    Code:
    #include <iostream.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    
    int main(int argc, char* argv[])
    {
      int p,q;
      if(argc>0 && argc<3)
      {
        p=atoi(argv[1]);
        q=atoi(argv[2]);
      }
      else
      {
        exit(1);
      }
      return 0;
    }
    I hope that's what you wanted...

    from the looks of it, you're trying RSA encrption. A little piece of advice... the numbers get too big to handle in regular C so you might need a library that can handle these large numbers.

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