Questions tagged [argc]
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What does argc and argv have to do with cryptography? Why are we learning about these arguments?
I understand what these arguments do--take inputs before the program starts to in some way influence the program. But they seem to have been shoe-horned into the lecture. David moves on from this ...
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PSet 2 - Why will it still pass negative numbers?
I am working on pset2 Caesar. I have everything done except for the fact that my program allows you to pass negative numbers as a key. Here is my code:
#include <cs50.h>
#include <ctype.h>...
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why argc is not counting all commands?
In command line argument example when we run program, it count all cmd argument but in case argc is 2 ? why not 4 ?
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week3 lecture very beginning
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 ...
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caesar argc … help me get started
Ok so i just started caesar and i don't know whether I'm headed in the right direction or not, if not i just need someone to point me the right way,and yes i have seen the walkthrough.
so heres my ...
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How can I display “< key>” on the same line if argc != 2?
How can I display "< key>" on the same line if argc != 2?
Example:
check50 2014.fall.pset2.caesar caesar.c
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How to check string argv[] for errors?
hope I can get some help here. I'm only at week 3 in CS50 and wanted to play around with command-line arguments a bit before moving on. I got this working (diagonalizing input), but couldn't figure ...
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How to handle “lack of argv[1]”
I have my code set up so that if argc doesn't equal 2 the main function will return 1. Per the specs I thought. But I keep getting the error that I didn't "handle lack of argv[1]".
if (argc != 2)
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Can someone explain me the point of the “int k = atoi((argv[1]);”?
I know that the answer seems obvious but I will explain further the reason for my question: in my program I only used for the key int k = GetInt() without the argv, argc etc. and the program seems to ...
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char* text = (argc == 3) ? argv[2] : argv[1];
Could someone explain me what the line in the title actually does?
Am I correct
if argc is 3
char* text is argv[2]
else
char* text is argv[1]
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If so, how do the operators work in this ...
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Segmentation Fault and Returning 1
If I declare int key before my if (argc != 2), I get a segmentation fault (core dumped) message when I run the program with only one command-line argument.
However if I declared int key after the if ...
