// handling command-line parameters

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main (int argc, char* argv[]) {
    // the command-line parameters are stored as C-style strings in the
    // argv[] array. argc contains 1 more than the number of command
    // line parmaeters specified.
    // the 0th command line parameter is always the program name.
    // we can print a C-style string directly through cout:
    cout << "This program is called '" << argv[0] << "'" << endl;
    cout << "The following are the command line parameters you specified: " << endl;
    // this for loop starts at 1 to avoid printing the name of the program
    for ( int i = 1; i < argc; i++ ) {
        // we can convert the C-style strings into C++-style strings:
        string s(argv[i]);
        // and then print them out:
        cout << "\t" << s << endl;
    }
    return 0;
}