I'd like to pass a string in from the command line but am not sure of the format or what type of variable is created.

I'm assuming it is something like: -d var1,"foobar"

But when I try to access it as either a string or STRING, I get run-time errors.

Anyone know how this is supposed to be used?

Thanks.

I don't know if this would work (I only have Commercial). But if you have Professional, then you might be able to make a string containing the COMMAND paramaters in the WINDOW WINSTART function, and use a str_cpy command to copy the command line parameters from the string to the WINSTART function.

If this isn't what you are trying to do, let me know.

I dunno if strings work and from the manual it seems it can take integer/float
values only.So you could try :-

-d var1

...

IFDEF var1;
{
str_cpy(my_str,"foobar");
}

I haven't tried it,but let me know if it works !
Secondly,how can a value given by -d be directly
accesed via C-script ?

Ok, a couple of replies:

MrCode:
Isn't the COMMAND feature used to pass command-line arguments to the app after the WINSTART has completed?
Not sure I see how to pass Windows command-line arguments into the WINSTART function.
I do have Pro version, so if I could pass to the WINSTART and then pass to the regular app, that would be great, but I don't see it...

zazang:
Your example would work, but I don't know what the string value will be; "foobar" is just an example -> the string could be anything.

As for using the variables directly, you just treat them as if they have been declared. So, for -d var1,5
if ( var1 == 5 ) { ... }
works fine without any other declarations for var1.

Thanks..This way of adding vars from the environment could be helpful !
Yeah I too wonder if strings can be directly passed like vars through command line

In general you could pass arbitrary things to trough the command line by passing c-script instructions and then executing via the "execute" instruction at the beginning of your main function. You could then pass "str_cpy(MyString,"Hello World!")" to the command line and that would initialize the string MyString with "Hello World!".

That's basically what I just said:

Quote:

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you might be able to make a string containing the COMMAND paramaters in the WINDOW WINSTART function, and use a str_cpy command to copy the command line parameters from the string to the WINSTART function

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No, it isn't. Your solution is fixed to strings while the method I suggested would allow to execute arbitrary code.

My dog passed a string once

Not sure I understand. Is this using the WINSTART function?
Or, is the string to pass to execute() being passed via the regular command-line arguments?

I've never used WINSTART and the help file has very little info and no examples for this.

Thanks.