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From: defaria@hpclapd.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Getting the command line args
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Date: 12 Nov 90 20:45:36 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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>/ hpclapd:comp.lang.pascal / awol@infopls.UUCP (Al Oomens) /  1:37 pm  Nov 10, 1990 /
>> 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.
>> 
>> Any comments?
>> 
>Use a loop and concatenate each parameter to a string variable?

I'm not sure but I think that DOS would get rid of any special characters:

program  'This string has some special DOS characters !@#$%^&*()_+'

Does anybody know for sure?