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The document defines a C program that uses command line arguments. It declares a main function that takes arguments argc and argv. It checks the number of arguments passed and prints the first argument if there is one argument, or prints an error if there are too many. It demonstrates passing a single argument with multiple words by enclosing it in double quotes.

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The document defines a C program that uses command line arguments. It declares a main function that takes arguments argc and argv. It checks the number of arguments passed and prints the first argument if there is one argument, or prints an error if there are too many. It demonstrates passing a single argument with multiple words by enclosing it in double quotes.

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#include <stdio.

h>
#include <string.h>
struct Books
{
char title[50];
char author[50];
char subject[100];
int book_id;
};
/* function declaration */
void printBook( struct Books book );
int main( )
{
struct Books Book1;
/* Declare Book1 of type Book */
struct Books Book2;
/* Declare Book2 of type Book */
/* book 1 specification */
strcpy( Book1.title, "C Programming");
strcpy( Book1.author, "Nuha Ali");
strcpy( Book1.subject, "C Programming Tutorial");
Book1.book_id = 6495407;
/* book 2 specification */
strcpy( Book2.title, "Telecom Billing");
strcpy( Book2.author, "Zara Ali");
strcpy( Book2.subject, "Telecom Billing Tutorial");
Book2.book_id = 6495700;
/* print Book1 info */
printBook( Book1 );
/* Print Book2 info */
printBook( Book2 );
return 0;
}
void printBook( struct Books book )
{
printf( "Book title : %s\n", book.title);
printf( "Book author : %s\n", book.author);
printf( "Book subject : %s\n", book.subject);
printf( "Book book_id : %d\n", book.book_id);
}
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
struct Books
{

char title[50];
char author[50];
char subject[100];
int book_id;
};
/* function declaration */
void printBook( struct Books *book );
int main( )
{
struct Books Book1;
/* Declare Book1 of type Book */
struct Books Book2;
/* Declare Book2 of type Book */
/* book 1 specification */
strcpy( Book1.title, "C Programming");
strcpy( Book1.author, "Nuha Ali");
strcpy( Book1.subject, "C Programming Tutorial");
Book1.book_id = 6495407;
/* book 2 specification */
strcpy( Book2.title, "Telecom Billing");
strcpy( Book2.author, "Zara Ali");
strcpy( Book2.subject, "Telecom Billing Tutorial");
Book2.book_id = 6495700;
/* print Book1 info by passing address of Book1 */
printBook( &Book1 );
/* print Book2 info by passing address of Book2 */
printBook( &Book2 );
return 0;
}
void printBook( struct Books *book )
{
printf( "Book title : %s\n", book->title);
printf( "Book author : %s\n", book->author);
printf( "Book subject : %s\n", book->subject);
printf( "Book book_id : %d\n", book->book_id);
}

A union is a special data type available in C that enables you to store different data types in the
same memory location. You can define a union with many members, but only one member can
contain a value at any given time. Unions provide an efficient way of using the same memory
location for multi-purpose.
Defining a Union
To define a union, you must use the union statement in very similar was as you did while
defining structure. The union statement defines a new data type, with more than one member for
your program. The format of the union statement is as follows:

union [union tag]


{
member definition;
member definition;
...
member definition;
} [one or more union variables];

union Data
{
int i;
float f;
char str[20];
} data;

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
union Data
{
int i;
float f;
char str[20];
};
int main( )
{
union Data data;
printf( "Memory size occupied by data : %d\n", sizeof(data));
return 0;
}

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
union Data
{
int i;
float f;
char str[20];
};
int main( )
{
union Data data;
data.i = 10;
data.f = 220.5;
strcpy( data.str, "C Programming");
printf( "data.i : %d\n", data.i);
printf( "data.f : %f\n", data.f);
printf( "data.str : %s\n", data.str);
return 0;
}

Command Line Arguments:


It is possible to pass some values from the command line to your C programs when they are executed.
These values are called command line arguments and many times they are important for your program
specially when you want to control your program from outside instead of hard coding those values inside
the code.
The command line arguments are handled using main() function arguments where argc refers to the
number of arguments passed, and argv[] is a pointer array which points to each argument passed to the
program. Following is a simple example which checks if there is any argument supplied from the
command line and take action accordingly:

#include <stdio.h>
int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
if( argc == 2 )
{
printf("The argument supplied is %s\n", argv[1]);

}
else if( argc > 2 ) {
printf("Too many arguments supplied.\n");
}
else {
printf("One argument expected.\n");
}
}
When the above code is compiled and executed with a single argument, it produces the following
result.
$./a.out testing
The argument supplied is testing
When the above code is compiled and executed with a two arguments, it produces the following
result.
$./a.out testing1 testing2
Too many arguments supplied.
You pass all the command line arguments separated by a space, but if argument itself has a space then
you can pass such arguments by putting them inside double quotes "" or single quotes ''. Let us re-write
above example once again where we will print program name and we also pass a command line
argument by putting inside double quotes:
#include <stdio.h>
int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
printf("Program name %s\n", argv[0]);
if( argc == 2 )
{
printf("The argument supplied is %s\n", argv[1]);
}
else if( argc > 2 )
{
printf("Too many arguments supplied.\n");
}
else
{
printf("One argument expected.\n");
}
}
When the above code is compiled and executed with a single argument separated by space but inside
double quotes, it produces the following result.
$./a.out "testing1 testing2"
Progranm name ./a.out
The argument supplied is testing1 testing2

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