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From: kamal@wpi.WPI.EDU (Kamal Z Zamli)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Getting the command line args
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.214246.8138@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 6 Nov 90 21:42:46 GMT
References: <950041@hpclapd.HP.COM>
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <950041@hpclapd.HP.COM> defaria@hpclapd.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria) writes:
>This is probably obvious to you all but I scanned through the documentation
>(pretty quickly) and I didn't come up with anything so I asking:
>
>How does a running program access the command line arguments?  I would like
>to do this with Turbo Pascal.

Try ParamStr and ParamCount functions:

Example:

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program test;

begin
 if paramcount= 0 then 
  writeln (' No parameter is given to the program ')
 else
  writeln (' Parameter given to the program is = ',ParamStr(1));
end.

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I hope that's help....