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Geoffrey Robinson wrote:

> I probably shouldn't keep posting my C questions to this list but I'm
> stumped on this command and don't know anybody who can help.
>
> The program below should print the first command line argument but when
> I try to compile it I get the errors 'argc' undeclared and 'argv'
> undeclared. I've been through the getopt man page dozens of times but I
> can't see where it shows how to declare argc and argv. So if they're not
> defined in stdlib.h I don't know where they come from.
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> main()
> {
>    extern char *optarg;
>    extern int optind;
>    int ch = 0;
>
>    ch = getopt(argc, argv, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz");
>    printf ("%c\n",ch);
> }
>
> At this point I'm so frustrated with this I would be happy with a way of
> just getting the command line arguments as a single string and decode
> them myself.
>

OR:  main(int argc, char**argv)

OR
 extern int _argc;
 extern char** _argv;

  which is not reccomended.

> Thanks.
>
> --
> Geoffrey Robinson
> grobin@accessv.com
> Oakville, Ontario, Canada.



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