title: Command-line argument parsing
text: # Command-line argument parsing
  
  Different command-line argument parsing methods are used by different programming languages to parse command-line arguments.
  
  ## Programming languages
  
  ### C
  
  C uses argv to process command-line arguments.
  
  An example of C argument parsing would be:
  
  C also has functions called getopt and getopt_long.
  
  ### Java
  
  An example of Java argument parsing would be:
  
  ### Kotlin
  
  Here are some possible ways to print arguments in Kotlin:
  
  ### Perl
  
  Perl uses @ARGV.
  
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  ### AWK
  
  AWK uses ARGV also.
  
  ### PHP
  
  PHP uses argc as a count of arguments and argv as an array containing the values of the arguments. To create an array from command-line arguments in the -foo:bar format, the following might be used:
  
  PHP can also use getopt.
  
  ### Python
  
  Python uses sys.argv, e.g.:
  
  Python also has a module called argparse in the standard library for parsing command-line arguments.
  
  ### Racket
  
  Racket uses a current-command-line-arguments parameter, and provides a racket/cmdline library for parsing these arguments. Example:
  
  The library parses long and short flags, handles arguments, allows combining short flags, and handles -h and --help automatically:
  
  ### Rexx
  
  Rexx uses arg, e.g.:
  
  ### Rust
  
  The args are in env::args.
  
  ### Node.js
  
  JavaScript programs written for Node.js use the process.argv global variable.
  
  Node.js programs are invoked by running the interpreter node interpreter with a given file, so the first two arguments will be node and the name of the JavaScript source file. It is often useful to extract the rest of the arguments by slicing a sub-array from process.argv.
  
  