Blitz Basic: Reading arguments from the command line

[motorollin]

I've scoured the Blitz manual and searched online but I can't find an answer to this... How on earth do I read command line arguments from Blitz?

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moto

[motorollin]

Thanks! I didn't think of searching the document for "parameter" :roll: I guess the command I'm looking for is "par$(parameter)". So if I ran the programme like this:

1.>myprog arg1=value

Then the command "str$=par$(arg1)" would set the variable str$ to "value". Right???

Thanks

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moto

[motorollin]

Ok, got it working by using "b$=Par$(1)". Now, is there any way to convert the string variable b$ to a byte variable so I can pass it to the parallel port?

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moto

[motorollin]

That works - thanks! :-) I had to add a "%" to the beginning of the string, but then it worked.

When I create an executable from the "Compiler" menu and then run the programme from the shell, it doesn't do anything. The relays don't change. If I run it inside Blitz then it works. Why might this be?

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moto

--EDIT
Forget that, I think I just had to close the Blitz editor as it was hogging the port. It's all working now  :-D  :-D  :-D  Thanks a lot for your help guys!!!