Question

Hi I am relatively new to programing.

I want to create a C++ program that when you call it in CMD you can pass it variables.

For example in cmd

Myprograme.exe 11 32 232
So that it uses these values in the calculation.

C++

int main(float A, float B, float C){
float sum= A+B+C;
cout << sum;
return 0;
}

My problem is I don’t know what you would call this process to even Google it.

Answer 1

The standard signature of main is as follows:

int main(int argc, const char **argv)

argc is the number of comman-line arguments that were given to the program (including argument number 0 which is the program’s name).

argv is an array of nul-terminated character strings, each of which contains the appropriate command-line argument. argv[argc] is a null pointer.

You can use these to parse the command-line arguments an pass them on to your computation.

For example, if you issue the following on the command line:

myprog.exe a bb c

• argc will be 4
• argv[0] will be "myprog.exe"
• argv[1] will be "a"
• argv[2] will be "bb"
• argv[3] will be "c"
• argv[4] will be the null pointer