ARGV

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There is a magic array named ARGV.

It contains the command line arguments to the program.

If the user types:

ruby hello.rb Alice Bob

then ARGV contains:

["Alice", "Bob"]

ARGV is a historical name. It means "Argument Vector" and has been around since the early 1970s.

Change hello.rb to contain:

puts "Hello, " + ARGV[0]

and run it a few times, e.g.

ruby hello.rb Alice

Change hello.rb to say hello to every one of its command line arguments.

For instance:

ruby hello.rb Alice Bob Charlie
Hello, Alice!
Hello, Bob!
Hello, Charlie!

Write a program named add.rb that adds all of its command line arguments together.

e.g.

ruby add.rb 1 2 3
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Do you remember how to convert a string to an integer?