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Refactoring postposition usage of "for" into preposition usage of "for"
cd-public Jan 3, 2026
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Parallelizing syntax to file paths from target strings.
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions src/ch12-01-accepting-command-line-arguments.md
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Expand Up @@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ $ cd minigrep
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The first task is to make `minigrep` accept its two command line arguments: the
file path and a string to search for. That is, we want to be able to run our
file path and a string for which to search. That is, we want to be able to run our
program with `cargo run`, two hyphens to indicate the following arguments are
for our program rather than for `cargo`, a string to search for, and a path to
a file to search in, like so:
for our program rather than for `cargo`, a string for which to search, and a path to
a file within which to search, like so:

```console
$ cargo run -- searchstring example-filename.txt
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