command line arguments

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how to convert command line arguments to char type

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string[] ar=Environment.GetCommandLineArgs();
char c =Convert.ToChar(a);

is converting in this way correct?

Posted 2-Mar-13 22:41pm

Rajat chotala

Updated 2-Mar-13 23:25pm

Akinmade Bond

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2013-03-02T23:00:00

No. The command line arguments are strings, and they are (effectively) arrays of characters. You cannot convert a string to a character any more than you can convert a shelf of books into a single novel. And your code doesn't even try - it deoesn't even use the arguments themselves!

Depending on what you want to do with the command line argument, you could compare it directly as a string:

C#

foreach(string cmd in Environment.GetCommandLineArgs())
   {
   switch(cmd)
      {
      case "Command1": ProcessCommand1(); break;
      case "Command2": ProcessCommand2(); break;
      ...
      }
   }

**Zoltán Zörgő** · Answer 2 · 2013-03-02T23:02:00

As the GetCommandLineArgs method return a string array, any element of it is a string. A string[^] is not a character and not a character array, as in C. You can not convert a string to a single char, since it contains many characters. You can however extract any character from it (using indexer or substring[^] method), or convert it to a character array[^].
So it depends on what yo want exactly...

But for parsing command line arguments, you better use a third party library, like this one: http://commandline.codeplex.com/[^]

Jibesh · Answer 3 · 2013-03-02T23:03:00

Convert.ToChar(string)[^] coverts only the first char of the string.
You can use string.ToCharArray[^] to convert all the char in a string to char array eg:

C#

string delimStr = " ,.:";
char [] delimiter = delimStr.ToCharArray();

so you make a decision on how your arguments are passed and how to use these methods to parse your arguments.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 4 · 2013-03-03T13:46:00

You really need a command-line parsing library and well-defined command line syntax per application, instead of "character" or any other ad-hoc stuff. I can offer my open-source code provided in my CodeProject article Enumeration-based Command Line Utility[^].

This library is especially easy to use and the usage is less error-prone. Another good library is recommended in my article.

—SA

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