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Old November 6th 17, 11:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lee
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Default 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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Old November 7th 17, 08:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
R.Wieser
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Default 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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