Extracting elements off an array of pointers

Question

Suppose we have this main:

int main(int argc,char *argv[]){

}

How could I manage to get the elements of *argv[],in order to extract some statistics off of each one(e.g letter count,numbers ,etc.)?

I have tried couple of things but didn't work(using pointers ).Eventually I tried a work-around,using strcpy() to copy each element of the array and that worked. So my question is,are there other ways to achieve that?

Here's an example of my code that works:

int main(int argc,char *argv[]){
    char temp[50];
    strcpy(temp,argv[1]); //extracting the first element of the array.

Answer 1

Another way of doing so is as below:

int main(int argc,char argv[]){
char *temp = argv;
}

This code will create a string named "temp" which is a copy of "argv[]". You can use to extract any stats you like without having to use the "strcopy" function. Also, take note that I have changed the argument from int main(int argc, char *argv[]) to int main(int argc, char argv[])