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JAVA command line flags

Is there is a good solution out there for creating custom flags to be set on the command line?

(from my search online, JAVA doesn't appear to have this capability natively, like C)

so I could do something like this:

java MyClass -t50 -d100

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and in my program have some conditional logic that checks for the existence of the flags, and sets those variables accordingly, or else sets default values

Thanks.

Sharon Seth

Why not in java ? The args passed from the command line are received by the String [] arg of main() method .

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Kyle Hamilton

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@sharonseth, because I would like something more along the lines of C's argv where I can pass optional flags in arbitrary order.

@CEHJ, for my current purposes a homebrewed Map sounds pretty good. I will definitely look into the Getopt API though - that's more along the lines of what I am ultimately looking for.

Could you show me an example of your Map?

Something like this maybe?

if I want to run: java MyClass -b myValue

Map<Character, String> opts = new HashMap<Character, String>(); 
            for(int i = 0; i < args.length-1; i+=2) {
              opts.put(args[i].charAt(1), args[i+1]);
            }
        System.out.println(opts.get('b'));