Passing Arguments To Tbasic Program

[peralta_mike]

How do I pass arguments to a thinbasic program?
Specifically how do I access the argument values that
I pass to a thinbasic program?

For example I want to pass the two arguments 3.14 and 1.717
to the thinbasic program myprog.bas as follows:

thinbasic myprog.bas 3.14 1.717


1. Is passing arguments even possible in this way?

2. How do I access these argument values within myprog.bas

Thanks for any help.

[Petr Schreiber]

Interesting question,

I think lot of people would like to do this ... and it is possible :)

This functionality is handled by OS module, by functions:

OS_GetCommand
OS_GetCommands
OS_CommandPresent
OS_CommandsGetSep
OS_CommandsSetSep

You can read more about them in the help file + see the sample code thinBasic\SampleScripts\OS\OS_SampleCommandLine.tBasic.

Here more elemental example to handle your task:


Uses "OS" ' -- For command line handling
Uses "Console"

Long i

' -- When launched from thinAir, the first param is @1 and the second name of the script
' -- When launched independently, the first param is name of the script
For i = 1 To OS_GetCommands
PrintL "Parameter #"+Format$(i), OS_GetCommand(i)
PrintL
Next

' -- Because of this behavior, the parameters we need are the prev-to-last and last one
Single param1 = OS_GetCommand(OS_GetCommands-1)
Single param2 = OS_GetCommand(OS_GetCommands)

MsgBox 0, "Number #1 = " + Format$(param1) + $CRLF +
"Number #2 = " + Format$(param2)
WaitKey


To test how it works, simply enter this in ThinAir, and then click Script/Command line and enter the two numbers separated by space.


Petr

[peralta_mike]

Thanks Petr.

That works.


:dance1: :drink: :dance1:

[peralta_mike]

I was trying to pass the arguments 1e-9 and 10e-9
but the program splits 1e-9 into 1e and -9. :unguee:
Can I control the separator characters?

My command line is:

thinbasic vt.bas mosdata1.txt 1e-9 10e-9


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Answer: To use spaces as the separator character use the following program line

OS_CommandsSetSep(" ")

before using the functions OS_GetCommands and OS_GetCommand()

( I include this post in case others run into this problem. )
:dance1:

[Petr Schreiber]

Thanks for sharing the solution!


Petr