run programs with an argument?

How does one go about making programs that accept added arguments at command line?

such as the program printMe.java

if i ran it like

java printMe im so cool

it would print, "im so cool"

Im looking to figure out how i can pass extra informatio开发者_JAVA技巧n to my program through command line arguments!

public static void main(String[] args) // note "args"

Java uses that String array to represent command-line arguments to the application.

All Java programs can take arguments.

Simple look at the String[] that gets passed in as the argument to your main method: it contains the command line arguments!

public class PrintMe {

    public static void main(String[] args){
        if(args.length > 0){
            System.out.println(args[0]);
        }
    }

}

$ javac PrintMe.java
$ java PrintMe "I'm so cool"
I'm so cool

By using the String[] args that is passed into the main function. This gets filled up with all of the specified parameters.

public static void main ( String[] args )

The Java main method has a parameter String[] args which will contain any command line arguments passed.

So, in your case, the PrintMe class's main method would look something like:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    for(String s : args) {
        System.out.print(s + " ");
    }
}