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commandline argument

Posted by viju on March 08, 2001 at 9:14 AM

*.* when specified as an argument it expands to a list of files in that directory. This is an Operting System feature.Since ur printing only the first element in this list ( args[0]) your able to see only the first name in this list

> all dears,
> what wiil will happen when we use *.* as an argument and try to print it like System.out.println(args{0}}.I get the first file name in class' directory. what is reason behind this..?
> reply asap
> with regrds lavaraj