I decided to try my hand at command line parsing and I found a good tutorial here: http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/DEN36Up4/

But I tried to do this:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <map>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

typedef map<string,string> Arguments;
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
	Arguments args;
	if(argc < 3)
	{
		cout << "ERROR: " << endl;
		return 1;
	}
	for(int i = 1; i < argc; i++)
	{
		string name = string(argv);

		if(name == "--Help")
		{
			if(i + 1 < argc)
			{
				char* file = argv[i++];
				ofstream outfile;
				outfile.open(file);
				if(outfile.is_open())
				{
					outfile << "Hello Jesus." << endl;
					
					
				}
				outfile.close();
				cout << "File Created: " << endl;
			}
			
		}
	}
	return 0;
}

as you can see, i'm trying to create a file when "--Help" is used (this is just a test, the final command wont be --Help. any ideas?

You have:

char* file = argv[i++];

If the filename is to be supplied after "--Help" perhaps you want '++i'.

Just as a side note, the strings == is case-sensitive so '--help' wouldn't match.

none of that worked...........well, there has to be a way to get that to work, creating a file via command line arguments....everyone else seems to know what they are doing.