I am currently writing a console application that deletes old log files, now I got that functionality working, I was trying to figure out how to execute a program with parameters from Command Prompt.
Example:
FileDeleter.exe days 3
where I'm running the program and telling it to delete 3 days worth of log files. Can these arguments be passed as variables into the code? I am not sure how this is accomplished.
Thanks for the help!
If you need more advanced parsing, there are of course libraries available Best way to parse command line arguments in C#?
your void main should take an array of strings as an arg:
static void Main(string[] args)
You can then parse the args as you see fit.
As @Neil N already mentionend, you have to define a your main method like this:
static void Main(string[] args)
args will then contain the arguments you passed.
If you run your program like this: FileDeleter.exe days 3, args[0] would contain the string "days" and args[1] would contain the string "3". Pay attention here that the latter one will be a string despite the fact that you passed a number. Therefor you might have to parse it to a number before using it.
