Thread: multiple command line arguments

I am having a problem with using a switch statement and argv[]

I need to create an interface that can be run as follows:

program -w4f4 file1 file2.
the argv[0], argv[2], and argv[3] are simple. Its the reading each character independently in argv[1] that is giving me the problem.

I dont want to create a 2 page main with lots of options, I would prefer to do something that reads in the first character and then compares the next one.

Any suggestions?

Do you have any code?

I would just check argv[1][0], then argv[1][1], and so on.

The arguments on the command line can be treated as strings.

argv [0] -> first string, name of program
argv [1] -> second string, first argument
argv [2] -> third string, second argument
etc.

You can then access the individual characters of the string like ygfperson explained. Or use the strcmp() or other string compare function to compare the strings.

THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP. I FINALLY FINISHED IT.