prog +f 3.2 -f name -n 5 input

"prog"

"+f"

"3.2"

"-f"

"name"

"-n"

"5"

"input"

See man getopt for a package to decode command lines

Program Design

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we want one procedure that we can call to process all the arguments, we will call this procedure process_arguments

what are the parameters to this procedure, what does it need to know

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