Newbie Hello

[Ishwar Rattan]

Locate a basic C programming txt and read it carefully
or stick with scripting..

-ishwar


On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Larry Brown wrote:

> I hope I'm in the right place... I am a fairly accomplished php
> developer and have written quite a bit of code with it.  However, all of
> my coding experience has been with scripting languages and I have never
> had to deal with memory allocation and rarely ever dealt with pointers
> or casting etc.
>
> For instance...
>
> with scripting I can simply access arguments by referencing the string
> at argv[1] or ARGV[1] etc.  It looks like I should be able to do this
> with c but I have to reference *argv[x] and *argv[x] only holds the
> first character.  The following is a snippet...
>
> int main(int argc, *argv[])
> {
> 	int secondVar=*argv[2];
> }
>
> if the second argument is say ... 10, I only get the 1.  There is some
> logic that I must follow that I can't see.  I've tried looking at
> *argv[2][0] to see if it was one and *argv[2][1] was zero but is
> aparently not the case.
>
> I have looked at several howto/instruction documents and none seem to
> yeild much.
>
> TIA
>
> Again, I hope I'm in the right place...
>
> Larry
>