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Object-Oriented Programming (CS F213) : BITS Pilani

This document discusses command line arguments in Java. It covers: 1) How command line arguments are passed as a String array to the main method. 2) Examples of passing different numbers of arguments and accessing them. 3) Methods for parsing the String arguments into primitive types like int and double. 4) An example program that performs math operations on two numeric arguments based on a third character argument.

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Object-Oriented Programming (CS F213) : BITS Pilani

This document discusses command line arguments in Java. It covers: 1) How command line arguments are passed as a String array to the main method. 2) Examples of passing different numbers of arguments and accessing them. 3) Methods for parsing the String arguments into primitive types like int and double. 4) An example program that performs math operations on two numeric arguments based on a third character argument.

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Object-Oriented Programming (CS F213)

Module I: Object-Oriented and Java Basics


CS F213 RL 6.5: Command-Line Arguments

BITS Pilani Dr. Pankaj Vyas


Department of Computer Science, BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus
CS F213 RL 6.5 : Topics

Command-Line Agruments/Parameters

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Command-Line Arguments

Parameters Passed to Driver main() Method during execution


public static void main(String args[]) { }
Arguments are stored in a String type Array.
How many number of arguments are passed can be checked via
<args.length>
Example : Consider a driver class named Test
If you execute the file following commands
java Test No Command-Line Arguments is passed
java Test 10 20 30 Three Arguments are passed.
args[0] = 10, args[1] = 20, args[2] = 30
java Test Object Oriented Programming 20 30 Five Arguments are passed.
args[0] = Object, args[1] = Oriented,
args[2] = Programming, args[3] = 20 and args[4] = 30

Note : Actual Arguments starts after the name of the driver class.
Each Argument should be space separated
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Command-Line Arguments :
Example 1
// File Name: Test.java
class Test
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
System.out.println(Number of Arguments: + args.length);
}
}

F:\>java Test
Number of Arguments: 0

F:\>java Test I Love India 20 30


Number of Arguments: 5

F:\>java Test 1 2 3 4 Hello 5 6 I AM FINE


Number of Arguments: 10

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Command-Line Arguments :
Example 2
// File Name: Test.java
class Test
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
System.out.println(Number of Arguments: + args.length);
// Displaying Individual Arguments
for(int i =0; i< args.length; i++)
System.out.println(args[i]);

} // End of Method
} // End of class Test
F:\>java Test 1 2 3 4 Hello 5 6 I AM FINE F:\>java Test I Love India 20 30
F:\>java Test
Number of Arguments: 10 Number of Arguments: 5
Number of Arguments:
1 args[0] I
args[0]
0
2 args[1] Love args[1]
3 India .
4 . 20 .
Hello . 30 args[4]
5
6 .
I .
AM
FINE args[9]
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Retrieving The Actual Type of
Parameters
Every type of argument is stored in a String type array
To retrieve the actual primitive type value, following methods
can be used
1. int Integer.parseInt(String s) parseInt() is a static method of Integer library class. Takes a
String type as argument and returns an integer type.
2. float Float.parseFloat(String s) parseFloat() is a static method of Float library class. Takes a
String type as argument and returns a float type.
3. double Double.parseDouble(String s) parseDouble() is a static method of Double library class.
Takes a String type as argument and returns a double type
4. char charAt(int index) charAt() is a method of String library class. Returns the character from a
index.
5. long Long.parseLong(String s) parseLong() is a static method of Long library class. Takes a
String type as argument and returns a long type
6. byte Byte.parseByte(String s) parseByte() is a static method of Byte library class. Takes a
String type as argument and returns a byte type
7. boolean Boolean.parseBoolean(String s) parseBoolean() is a static method of Boolean library
class. Takes a String type as argument and returns a boolean type
8. short Short.parseShort(String s) parseShort() is a static method of Short library class. Takes a
String type as argument and returns a short type
Note: Each of the above Method [except charAt()] Throws a
NumberFormatException if the string does not represent the desired type
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Examples of parsing
int x = Integer.parseInt(10); // Executes Successfully

int y = Integer.parseInt(10.56); // Throws NumberFormatException

double y1 = Double.parseDouble(10.56); // Executes Successfully

double y2 = Double.parseDouble(xyz); // Throws NumberFormatException

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Command-Line Arguments :
Example 3
Write a program to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication of two numbers passed via
command line. The type of operation which is to be performed on the numbers is to be
decided via third command line which should be be either a (for addition) or s (for
subtraction) or m (for multiplication).

// File Name: Test.java


class Test
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
double a = Double.parseDouble(args[0]);
double b = Double.parseDouble(args[1]);
char c = args[2].charAt(0);

if( c == a) System.out.println(a+b);
else if( c == s) System.out.println(a-b);
else if( c == m) System.out.println(a * b);

} // End of Method
}// End of class Test

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Command-Line Arguments :
Example 3 .
F:\>java Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
at Test.main(You.java:6)

F:\>java Test 10 20 a F:\>java Test 10 20 a F:\>java Test 10 20 m


30.0 30.0 200.0

F:\>java Test 10 20 x

F:\>java Test 10 x 30
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "x
"
at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.parseDouble(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Unknown Source)
at Test.main(You.java:7)

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Thank You

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