Wrong to process command line args in a loop?

Question

I tried to process my command line args like this:
int[] rgb = {0,0,0};
          for(int i=1;i<3;i++)
               rgb[i-1] = Integer.parseInt(args);
I enter six args where args 1 to 3 are ints and not zero, but rgb[2] always ends up being zero. I had to do away with the loop and write out three assignment statements, but if I had ten or more args that would be a headache! Does anyone know why this is happening? I'm using JDK 1.3.1_15.

Answer 1

for(int i=0;i<3;i++)
   rgb[i] = Integer.parseInt(args);
Look closely and make sure you understand the differences between my code and yours:
* i starts at 0, not 1
* rgb uses i for index, not i - 1.
Why would you have rgb using i -1 and args using i?
Now, if you have an arg [i]before the RGB args, then it would make sense for args' index to be different than rgb's. In that case, you might have i-1 and i, or i and i+1, etc. depending on how you structure your loop.
The main problem is that you had i=1; i<3, which will go through the loop body for i=1 and i=2 only. Make sure you understand why.