Convert command line argument to string

Question

I have a program that reads hard-coded file-path and I want to make it read file-path from command line instead. For that purpose I changed the code like this:

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Answer 1

No need to upvote this. It would have been cool if Benjamin Lindley made his one-liner comment an answer, but since he hasn't, here goes:

std::vector argList(argv, argv + argc);

If you don't want to include argv[0] so you don't need to deal with the executable's location, just increment the pointer by one:

std::vector argList(argv + 1, argv + argc);