[fpc-pascal]Re: About GetOpts and configuration file parsing

[Aitor Santamaría]

Hi,

>program slashopt;
>var
>  I: integer;
>begin
>  { convert options from '/' to '-' before parsing ...
>}
>  for I:=1 to argc -1  do begin
>    if ( argv[I] <> nil ) and ( argv[I][0] = '/' )
>then  begin
>      argv[I][0] := '-' ;
>      if ( argv[I][1] = '/' ) then  argv[I][1] := '-' 
>
well, I am not planning to allow -- at all, I don't like it, so I 
suppose I can skip that row.

>end;
>  end;
>  { ... Now your command line is ready for the getopts
>unit }
>  
>end.
>
do you mean that any FPC program has defined  argc (I suppose ParamCount 
returns this value, then), and argv as an array of PChars, that can be 
modified?

Aitor