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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Paramstr() like argv()
Keywords: command line parameters
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.132832.25741@uwasa.fi>
Date: 16 Feb 91 13:28:32 GMT
References: <1991Feb16.005252.24456@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1991Feb16.005252.24456@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui) writes:
>I have been looking for some source that would implement a replacement
>for paramstr() such that it returns quoted items as a single token
:
>Currently in TP single or double quoted strings containing white space
>are broken into individual tokens.
:

Read the entrire command line into a single string, and then parse
that string whatever way your problem warrants.  (If you don't know
how to read the entire command line, see /pc/ts/tsfaq17.arc FAQ
collection for the code.)

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