Re: Commad Line question

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From: Thomas Mueller
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:09

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Hi,

Donald Neisler wrote:

> Never written a command line app and now I am and I have a question.

> I need to be able to use it like this.

> c:\temp\MyExe.exe %variable

Is %variable an environment variable? If Yes: Is your program called from
cmd.exe?

If you answer both questions with yes, just use ParamCount/ParamStr to read
the parameters. The shell will take care of expanding the environment
variable.

If your program is not called by cmd.exe but by another program that passes
the actual text "%variable" to it, your program must call
GetEnvironmentVariable to determine the value of the variable.

twm

ps: This group is meant for discussions about the commandline tools that
come with Delphi, e.g. dcc32, grep etc., not commandline tools written with
Delphi.

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