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From: awol@infopls.UUCP (Al Oomens)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Getting the command line args
Message-ID: <9B4Ds4w163w@infopls.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 90 22:08:07 GMT
References: <950041@hpclapd.HP.COM>
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL
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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.

There are two TP commands to access the command line:
ParamCount, and ParamStr. the first returns the number of parameters on 
the command line, while the second retrieves the specified parameter. For 
example:
If ParamCount < 1 THEN
   WriteLn( 'No Parameters on the command line!' );

IF ParamStr( 1 ) = '/v' THEN
   WriteLn( 'Verify turned on.' );

Also note that ParamStr( 0 ) will return the name of the program executed 
from the command line.