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Argument passed to main()
int argc;
argc is an abbreviation for ``argument
count''. It is the traditional name for the first argument
to a C program's main routine. By
convention, it holds the number of arguments that are passed
to main in the argument vector
argv. Because argv[0] is
always the name of the command, the value of argc
is always one greater than the number of command-line
arguments that the user enters.
Example
For an example of how to use argc, see the
entry for argv.
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