Richard, GetOpt looks exactly like what I want.
The docs specify on startup is only sent when the application is opened. This won’t work for me as I want to catch command line parameters ongoing while my application stays open. What would the syntax be if I want to catch 3 items some of which could contain multiple words with a space between them? Thank you, Bill > On Mar 28, 2019, at 2:54 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Bill Vlahos wrote: > > > I want my application to be able to catch parameters sent to it via > > the command line. > > Ah, much simpler problem. > > macOS is a certified Unix. It works just like Linux. > > On startup, you can check $# for the number of args passed in the command > line, or $1, $2, etc. to get the value of any one of them. > > If you need really sophisticated command-line argument handling, check out > the getOpt function Peter Brett added for that: > > https://livecode.fandom.com/wiki/Getopt > <https://livecode.fandom.com/wiki/Getopt> > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com <mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com> > http://www.FourthWorld.com <http://www.fourthworld.com/> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
