Re: Parameters in command line

From: John Bokma (postmaster_at_castleamber.com)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: 20 Feb 2005 22:37:48 GMT

A. Sinan Unur wrote:

> John Bokma <postmaster@castleamber.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96039C7D6183Fcastleamber@130.133.1.4:
>
>> Brian McCauley wrote:
>>
>>> yusufdestina wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can someone point me to a direction for this?
>>>> I have an application that opens another perl execuatable file.
>>>> [PAR] How can I pass vars to the perl appl.?
>>>> ex: testfile.exe name=value ...
>>>
>>> It it confusing to use an .exe suffix on a Perl script.
>>
>> Read a bit more about PAR and pp and then you understand.
>
> I am not so sure the answer to the OP's question has anything
> whatsoever to do with PAR.

Oh, I didn't say that. Only that what comes out of pp *has* an exe
extension.

> There are two possibilities:
>
> 1. testfile.exe's source is under the OP's control. In this case,
> brian's advice applies.

Why? It's perfectly valid, legal, etc. to just call a perl script, or
perl2exe exe or pp generated exe.

> 2. testfile.exe's source is not under the OP's control. In this case,
> the original language testfile.exe was written in and the fact that it
> was compiled with PAR becomes irrelevant.

True.

> If testfile.exe does expect
> and handle parameters specified on the command line, then the OP can
> use the system function to do so.
>
> If testfile.exe is not designed and written to expect command line
> parameters, then it is not possible to pass command line parameters to
> testfile.exe.
>
> To sum up,
>
> If (1) applies, refactor code as per Brian's suggestion.

If it ain't broke.... Why refactor if you can just call it with system? 

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