need help with easy probelm for working around cin.getline

I have a program (encrypt.exe) that waits for user input using cin.getline()
to my understanding, cin.getline will take the input and parse it out over an array.

so for example lets say i run the program and it asks for text...
it type in "test"

my progarm will basically do this:
scratch[0] = 't';
scratch[1] = 'e';
scratch[2] = 's';
scratch[3] = 't';
scratch[4] = '\0';

Now what i want to do is avoid having the user input text by passing the text through the command line.
I am using main(int argc, char **argv) to do this.
so if i run the program like this... encrypt.exe test
i want it to do the same as above.
but the problem is "test" is entered in as one long char into argv[1].

how can i parse argv[1] to scratch[] so i get the same result as above... i.e.
scratch[0] = 't';
scratch[1] = 'e';
scratch[2] = 's';
scratch[3] = 't';
scratch[4] = '\0';

i know i can probably write some simple loop...but what fucition do i use to parse argv[1]?

i hope i made my probelm clear.

Thaks guys

The function you are looking for is in string.h and is strcpy -

strcpy (scratch, argv[1]);

-KM-

hey
will strcpy work if i need to do the same thing only from a char array to an int array?

i have two integer arrays, temp_guess1] and guess[4], with temp_guess[1] being a four digit number, and i want to parse the four digit number from temp_guess[1] into guess[1], [2], [3], and [4]. i tried strcpy (guess, temp_guess[1]); but when i compile it i get an error which says "error C2664: 'strcpy' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'int [4]' to 'char *'". at first i thought it meant that it couldnt convert an int to a char but both of my arrays are int. im not really familiar with the strcpy function, am i doing something wrong? if anybody can help, it will be greatly appreciated.

thanks