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Reading Command-Line Arguments

Parse argv with an allocator.

Why Arguments Matter

A real CLI tool reacts to what the user types after its name. Those words are the command-line arguments, and reading them is step one. 🛠️

Zig Hands You Nothing Hidden

Other languages give you a magic argv variable. Zig stays explicit: you ask the std.process namespace for the arguments yourself.

const std = @import("std");

All lessons in this course

  1. Reading Command-Line Arguments
  2. Reading Files and stdin
  3. Writing Output and Exit Codes
  4. Package and Release the Binary
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