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Is there a way to turn a folder's filenames into a text file?
On Monday, November 6, 2017 at 12:56:04 AM UTC-7, R.Wieser wrote:
I think you ment %0 there ... Ah snap. Now you caught me asleep at the wheel. ... But not always. And therein lay the rub - exactly when is it 'not always'? And no, 'when it isn't' is not much help. It is funny though. Same with me actually, I just knew about that backslash being an escape character, and how to use it to embed doublequotes in a string. And that's my takeawsy lesson. Only after you've explained it I can see what is going on there such that I can understand it's need and utility. Before I was left with why the offset, which part are they talking about again? True understanding of it was never achieved then. Thanks Rudy, it's been fun. |
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Is there a way to turn a folder's filenames into a text file?
Lee,
Ah snap. Now you caught me asleep at the wheel. I have already bungled up twice now, so I'm the last one to judge. :-) And therein lay the rub - exactly when is it 'not always'? When you run into it ofcourse ! :-D But seriously, I've got, and *cannot* have any idea about that. You see, its fully upto the person who writes the program to how to handle the argument string. Yes, thats right: All you are getting is a single string (from the 'GetCommandLine' function in Kernel32) you have to parse yourself. Or depend on a programming-environments build-in handling of that string, like happens within C{something}. But even that doesn't fix everything. I've got programs here which use "-" (instead of the windows "/") as a switch prefix (probably because it was origionally a Linux based program), programs which regard the whole argument string as path, others which accepts switches but the moment it does not find such a switch takes the rest of the line as a single argument. Yet others accept the next (space-delimited) string after a switch (even when seperated by a space) as an argument to that switch. And I'm sure that what I've encountered myself is not even close to exhaustive ... I short: 10 different programmers *could* mean 10 different ways the arguments are parsed/looked at. :-\ And that's my takeawsy lesson. .... Thanks Rudy, it's been fun. Thanks for mentioning that. Although I always enjoy helping others by explaining stuff like this, its nice to hear it once in a while. :-) Regards, Rudy Wieser |
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