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Argument vector containing the arguments passed in from the command line when starting a program. Used in the main method, in conjunction with argc.

argv stands for arguments vector, and represents the arguments given to the program, or main, in a command-line. It is used in conjunction with , the number of arguments given to a program.

Keep in mind that the first value in argv contains the program name.

Example usage:

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    /* Some code involving command-line arguments from argv */
}

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