Question

I am designing a chess game using the UCI Protocol. The program requires line commands as input.

My question is if I need a function separate from the main() function for parsing these commands, and also how to I get the input for parsing? I realize that char* argv is named in the function parameter, but I found that using argv = cin.get() didn’t work.

I have looked at many tutorials and none of them answer either question.

Also I’m sorry if this is badly worded.

Answer 1

May I suggest non mythical programming:

#include <string>
#include <vector>

int main(int argc, char**argv)
{
    const std::vector<std::string> args(argv, argv+argc);

    // be merry and use `args`

}

Update Hmm. I guess you meant console/standard input. In that case, a read loop might be what you want:

std::string line;
while (std::getline(std::cin, line))
{
     // process command in line
}