Command-line arguments

Retrieve the list of command-line arguments given to the program.

Example command line:

myprogram -c "alpha beta" -h "gamma"

Ada

Command line arguments are available through the pre-defined package Ada.Command_Line.

with Ada.Command_line; use Ada.Command_Line;
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO

procedure Print_Commands is
begin
   -- The number of command line arguments is retrieved from the function Argument_Count
   -- The actual arguments are retrieved from the function Argument
   -- The program name is retrieved from the function Command_Name
   Put(Command_Name & " ");
   for Arg in 1..Argument_Count loop
      Put(Argument(Arg) & " ");
   end loop;
   New_Line;
end Print_Commands;

UNIX Shell

sh

To retrieve the entire list of arguments:

WHOLELIST="$@"

To retrieve the second and fifth arguments:

SECOND=$2
FIFTH=$5

Tcl

The pre-defined variable argc contains the number of arguments passed to the routine, argv contains the arguments as a list. Retrieving the second argument might look something like this:

if { $argc > 1 } { puts [lindex $argv 1] }(Tcl counts from zero, thus [lindex $list 1] retrieves the second item in the list)