Why can't I use an input file as an argument?
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Unless I'm doing something wrong, the program arguments box ignores any files I try to use as input. It seems like there was a request for this to be added back in 2011 but hasn't been. Is there a reason why it hasn't been?
Just seems weird to have to compile outside of Intellij to test that the input file actually works
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Hi, Andy!
Are you trying to pass a file name as an argument?
Please try advices from this link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32951846/run-programme-from-intellij-with-command-line-file-input
How does your app handle the input, as a stream or does it take the file name and opens it for reading?
If the former, please vote for https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-140121.
@Petr - the link doesn't help unfortunately. From what I read online and this...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41684239/having-trouble-with-program-arguments-and-intellij/41684309#41684309
It doesn't seem like it's possible
@Serge - that's what I want yes. Thanks
Any updates on this? I would also really appreciate being able to have all my command-line arguments written down in a txt file that is loaded by pycharm every time I run a configuration
This feature is available for some Run/Debug configuration types in the current IDE version. At the moment supported types for Java-based run configurations: Application, Java Scratch, JUnit, JarApplication.