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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Getting the command line args
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.224331.19733@uwasa.fi>
Date: 9 Nov 90 22:43:31 GMT
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Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1365@netmbx.UUCP> docbrain@netmbx.UUCP (Frank Seidinger) writes:
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>This works fine, if you try to scan 'true' parameters. That means, that each
>of the parameters in the given command line is seperated by whitespace. But
>what can I do if i have to catch an argument like:
>
>    program 'This should be one long parameter'
>
>I never solved this problem in Turbo Pascal.

From my FAQ:

18. *****
 Q: How can I obtain the entire command line (spaces and all)?

 A: ParamCount and ParamStr are for parsed parts of the command line
and cannot be used to get the command line exactly as it was. For
obtaining the command line unaltered, use, for example
  type CommandLineType = string[127];
  var  CommandLinePtr  : ^CommandLineType;
  begin
    CommandLinePtr := Ptr(PrefixSeg, $80);
    writeln (CommandLinePtr^);

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School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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