Command line arguments or reading file

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I need to process 10 values. Which way would be better? Getting them as command line arguments or instead reading from a file? Using C by the way.

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OMG Ponies · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-21 06:06:37Z

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If you make them as command-line arguments, then you could do it both ways... i.e.

 a.out 1 2 hello abc ...

or

a.out \`cat file_with_arguments.txt\

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answered May 20, 2011 at 22:37

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