Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!gatech!udel!udccvax1!udccpyr1!mikej
From: mikej@pyr1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Programming ... Pascal
Keywords: Pascal, Parameters
Message-ID: <2936@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 27 Feb 89 20:24:00 GMT
References: <495@chief.UUCP> <772@rpi.edu>
Sender: usenet@vax1.acs.udel.EDU
Reply-To: mikej@pyr1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael Jacobs)
Organization: University of Delaware
Lines: 20

In article <772@rpi.edu> fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Ethan M. Young) writes:
>In article <495@chief.UUCP> start@chief.UUCP (CompuInvest BBS system ) writes:
>>How does one set up a program to read in parameters from the command line?
>>Shell> pascal.prg -param1 -param2
>
>In Turbo Pascal (at least 3.0), there are two variables called ParamCount and
>ParamStr.  ParamCount is of type integer and contains the number of blank-
>separated parameters on the command line.  
>
>ParamStr is an ARRAY of strings, each string being the appropriate parameter,
>starting at index 1 (It may be 0)

It's not an array, it's a function.  It makes a difference wether you use
()'s or []'s.  The parameter of the ParamStr function is the ordinal number
of the parameter you want.  ParamStr(0) will return the name of the 
program you executed.

Mike J, The Grey Sysop...   |  Ancient Spirits of Evil, transform this
Temporal Hitchhiker         |  decayed form into Mumm-ra, the Ever Living!
mikej@vax1.acs.udel.EDU     |