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I'm not sure exactly if the title made it clear, but I want to save the text typed in the same line while executing a program in C.

For example, if I type: ./myprogram samplestring

I want to save samplestring as a variable in the C program. Not sure if this is possible or not, and sorry if I'm not being clear, I'm a bit confused.

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    Are you looking for argv[1]? Commented Mar 1, 2016 at 18:57
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    crasseux.com/books/ctutorial/argc-and-argv.html will help. A better title for your question would be "how to get the command line arguments supplied to my C program". Commented Mar 1, 2016 at 19:02
  • I think his main issue was that he didn't know that this were 'command line arguments' ! Hence the difficulty to search for it, to find duplicates and to have a clear title. Commented Mar 1, 2016 at 19:39
  • Yes, I was looking for argv[1], and @mah, thanks for the article. Very helpful. Commented Mar 1, 2016 at 20:32

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#include <stdio.h> int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { int count; printf ("This program was called with \"%s\".\n",argv[0]); if (argc > 1) { for (count = 1; count < argc; count++) { printf("argv[%d] = %s\n", count, argv[count]); } } else { printf("The command had no other arguments.\n"); } return 0; }
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