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Week3 Lecture: A student asked a question of my mind how do computer know about the argc ? I really don't understand how is this argc working In case we printed "zymla" we gave argv[1] as our first command was hello-4 and second was zymla Where is the role of "argc" ?

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If I understand your question correctly, and it's "what is the role of argc" the answer is that we need it to know how many arguments were passed to main from the command line. So if the command was ./hello-4 Zamyla we have argc == 2 and argv[0] == "./hello-4" and argv[1] == "Zamyla". Without argc you wouldn't know the length of argv.

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