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Read following you page and you might be capable of doing the assigment
yourself and learn something:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/attributes/cmdLineArgs.html

Bart

OK mfana, I will show you how to do this in java, but though keep in
mind that you can do more to improve the code and that I leave for you,
Hola!!

import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.IOException;
public class SimpleExercise
{
   // Throws an exception to indicate that a problem occured due to
input operations
    public static void main(String[] args)throws IOException
    {

       BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReade(System.in));
       System.out.println("Please enter a line of text");

       /*Read the line of text from the consol window, the method
returnsnull    if no line was entered*/
       String input = reader.readLine();

       boolean done = false;

       while(!done)
       {
          if(input == null)
          {
              done = true;
              System.out.println("Enter arguments on the console
window");
          }
          else
          {
              //This a class used to break up a sentence into words
              StringTokenizer token = new StringTokenizer(input);
              while(token.hasMoreTokens())
              {
                  String word = token.nextToken();
                  System.out.println(word);
              }
              input = reader.readLine();
          }  
      }
      reader.close();
   }
}

Can you write a program that prints "Hello, world!" no matter
what? Write that first. The command to print "Hello, world!" is
spelled System.out.println("Hello, world!");.

Then modify the program so that it prints "Hello, world!" if
there are command line arguments, and prints another message
otherwise.

When you have done that, you know how to write a runnable program
and how to run it, and you also know where to find the command
line arguments and how many they are, and how to choose what to
do based on a condition being true or false.

Now modify the program to print out the first command line
argument, if there are command line arguments. Print a message
otherwise.

When you have done that, you know how to access individual
command line arguments. You have found out that the index of the
first argument in the array - they are in a thing that is called
an array - is 0.

Then you are ready to learn about loops. First modify the program
to print out the first command line argument as many times as
there are command line arguments: print huuh huuh huuh, each on
its own line, if the arguments are huuh, ka and ja. Use a so
called "for" loop. If it takes an hour to understand how it
works, spend the hour.

At this point it is really simple to finnish the job and let the
huuhkaja out of its cage. Typically you change a single character
only: a zero to ... what?