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MarkTrubo
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 Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 7:35 pm Post subject: How to I pass info into a VDS prog when I run it? |
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Like if I had a program that needed to know how to set a start and stop time and I wanted to do that something like this -- calling my VDS program from another non-vds program:
onoff.exe /b:9 /e:18
How do I get the 9 and 18 or whatever into my program to use? |
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ShinobiSoft
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Each bit of data passed to the VDS app from the command line will be
contained in one of the numeric variables. Here's an example:
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onoff.exe /b:9 /e:18
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As soon as the onoff.exe app starts, for this example, check for the existance
of the %1 and %2 variables. "/b:9" will be contained in the %1 variable and
"/e:18" will be contained in the %2 variable.
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SnarlingSheep
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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In your example, %1 would hold /b:9 and %2 would hold /e:18
You could then parse them for the switch and number something like:
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OPTION FIELDSEP,":"
PARSE "%%Switch;%%Number", %1
IF @EQUAL(%%Switch,/b)
INFO Do something with %%Number
END
PARSE "%%Switch;%%Number", %2
IF @EQUAL(%%Switch,/e)
INFO Do something with %%Number
END
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MarkTrubo
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks guys -- knew it was too simple. Must be under stress from my puppy getting bitten by another dog this weekend. |
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