Thread: Reading arguments from command-line

I'm new to programming and to C and I'm trying to learn some new things. I want to make program, which will find minimum and/or maximum number. As far as I was making researches it would be the best to sort number with bubble sort, and than print out the first or the last number of that sorted array.
What I don't know is how to pass all those numbers to array via therminal on Linux.
For example:

Code:

$ ./findnumber -n 4-m -t int 7 4 3 1 5 2 8 
Minimum number is:4

-n means find the "n" max/min number of sorted array -m means find the smallest number -t means type of numbers (integer or float)
I find out also, that you have to save those arguments into argc, argv, but I don't know how to go further.

Thanks for help.

Originally Posted by GReaper

You could build a rudimentary parser, but since you're asking us about linux, you can use getopt().

XGetopt is available for Windows, and also read the comments as a version may be shipped with Microsoft compilers.