NAME

getarg, iargc − get the kth command line argument

SYNOPSIS

subroutine getarg ( k, arg )
character∗(∗) arg function iargc ()

DESCRIPTION

The statement call getarg( k , arg ) will get the kth command-line argument and put it into arg . 

The 0th argument is the command name. 

The function iargc returns the argument count: the index of the last command-line argument,
and therefore the number of arguments after ] the command name.

EXAMPLE

demo% cat tesargs.f
character argv∗10
integer i, iargc, m
m = iargc()
do i = 1, m
call getarg ( i, argv )
 write( ∗, ’( i2, 1x, a )’ ) i, argv
end do
end
demo % a.out first second last
 1 first
 2 second
 3 last
demo%

FILES

libF77.a

SEE ALSO

execve(2), getenv(3F)

Sun Release 4.1  —  Last change: 26 July 1992