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Article #6683Re: A small programming challenge.
From: Blair P. Houghton
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 23:43
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 23:43
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In article <1499@loki.une.oz.au> kevin@loki.une.oz.au (Kevin Pollard) writes: >The task is: > allow up to 4 parameters to be entered on the command line > (that is, progname [ p1 [ p2 [ p3 [ p4 ] ] ] ] if you know what I mean) See if you can find the getopt() or parseargs() packages. getopt has a dozen or so versions from various people and places, and I forget who wrote parseargs... In short, it's a very simple, well-researched, and elegantly solved problem to allow simple specification of the probable calling arguments to a C program. >This is really an algorithm problem, but since there is no algorithm >newsgroup, and I program in C on an IBM-type machine, this would be >a relevant newsgroup. comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer I'd believe. comp.lang.c, even. However, comp.std.c was absolutely not the correct place to put it. --Blair "Yuck! There's gum on the floor."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed!intelhf!ichips!inews!pima!bhoughto From: bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: A small programming challenge. Keywords: Algorithm Message-ID: <4254@inews.intel.com> Date: 15 May 91 23:43:49 GMT References: <1499@loki.une.oz.au> Sender: news@inews.intel.com Organization: Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ Lines: 22