> The plus concatenates strings,
Okay, I see.
> Basically you can always do this:
> Writeln('Hello, ' + 'world!');
> Writeln('Hello, ', 'world!');
> and they do the same thing.
I don't think I've ever seen the former. This is useful stuff to know!
:-)
> P.S. find a good book about p
DONALD PEDDER wrote:
Exec(GetEnv('COMSPEC'), '/c copy '+ParamStr(1)+' '+ParamStr(1)+'.bak /v');
Now THIS is what I needed to know! Thank you. :-) I originally tried a
writeln kind of syntax - '/c copy ',paramstr(1),' ',paramstr(1),'.bak /v'
- but that didn't work, hence my other attempts to
> Exec(GetEnv('COMSPEC'), '/c copy '+ParamStr(1)+' '+ParamStr(1)+'.bak /v');
Now THIS is what I needed to know! Thank you. :-) I originally tried a
writeln kind of syntax - '/c copy ',paramstr(1),' ',paramstr(1),'.bak /v'
- but that didn't work, hence my other attempts to build the string. I
di
DONALD PEDDER wrote:
Below is the current state of my code. I am getting "invalid TSS" at
the point I have noted. I don't even know what a "TSS" is! I guess it's
something to do with strings (I haven't used strings much before either -
something else lacking in my previous compilers). I searched
Hi all,
The previous compiler I used didn't have Exec or a way to get
parameters, so I am currently fooling around with these new toys (needless
to say, my old programs were pretty inflexible, with hard-coded filenames,
etc.).
In particular, I am trying to build and execute a DOS command usi
