Small function to get a practical vector for the in-line arguments in a console. Otherwise one has to work with them via pointer arithmetic.

makeArgsHandy.cpp

#include <string>
#include <vector>
/// Precondition: argc and argv were given as parameter for main function
/// because the represents the in lines arguments for a program.
/// Precondition: argc is the number of elements in argv.
/// Note: Returns an empty vector if argc is zero.
std::vector<std::string> makeArgsHandy(int argc, char** argv)
{
  size_t size{static_cast<size_t>(argc)};
  std::vector<std::string> converted{size};
  if (size != 0)
  {
    converted.assign(argv, argv + argc);
  }
  return converted;
}