Hi,
I hope this will be an easy one for someone.
I am changing a pascal program and being a non-pascal person I have not
been able to work out how to pass some variables from the command line
and process them within the code. ie as in argv and argc in C.

eg if pasprg is the name of the program then from the command line
I want to type "pasprg 4 8 9" and have the 4,8 and 9 end up in variables
so I can process them at runtime.
I do not want to prompt for them with write/readln

Any help and esp a small example would be greatly appreciated.

TIA
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Brendan Patrick Charles <bchar...@lawson.its.utas.edu.au> wrote:

You can use ParamStr to pass the command line parameters to the program,
and use ParamCount for the number of parameters passed.

here's a short example:

Program Param_Example;
Var
  ParamNum : Integer;

Begin
  For ParamNum := 1 To ParamCount Do
    WriteLn('Parameter ',ParamNum,': ',ParamStr(ParamNum));
End.

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bchar...@lawson.its.utas.edu.au (Brendan Patrick Charles) wrote:

Piece of cake, mate:

Number of parameters is to be found in ParamCount and the parameters
them selves in ParamStr so, in your example above, ParamCount=3 and
ParamStr(1)=4, ParamStr(2)=8 and ParamStr(3)=9.

ParamStr(0) always exists and is the name, with full path, of the
executing program. Note that this is only true when you run the
program from command line. What you get inside the IDE varies with the
version.

... DH