Let's step away from File IO for a minute to talk about a feature of Java we have been ignoring, but might find helpful for working with files: command-line arguments. We just successfully passed in 3 ...

Over the years, I have written several Java tools that take command line arguments to control their behavior. Early on, I found it annoying to manually create and maintain the code for processing ...

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(The below post is brought to you from years of being irritated by other programmers' quirky command line syntax, and my acknowledgement that for many small apps, doing it "right" can take up way ...