Passing Data upon call to launch .exe

[itctravel]

Hello;

I am a noobie,1st post for me on this forum and not really great with code.

I have an outside application that will make a call to an .exe (that I am creating) on the local machine and pass some data with the call.

for instance

c:\application.exe /data1 /data2

I then want to be able to take the data and act on it after the program launches.

Any Ideas?

Thanks Much!!

[Unicornasaurus]

There's a built-in variable called $cmdLine that you can use. It's an array variable, so $cmdLine[0] will tell you how many parameters were passed to the autoit exe with the 'space' character being the delimeter between commands.

In your case:

$cmdLine[0] = 2

$cmdLine[1] = "/data1"

$cmdLine[2] = "/data2"

[itctravel]

Thanks Unicornasaurus!

I will try playing with that a bit. I am looking at this in the HELP file for more detail. I appreciate you taking the time to help, I think I should be able to make this work.

[itctravel]

It Works!!!

Thanks again to you and all on this forum that help turn coal to diamonds!

[itctravel]

Ok guys (gals?), I have run ito a small issue that I am sure someone will be able to come up with a solution for. I have tried the help file for about an hour now trying to figure a way to accomplish this but figured instead of wasting a day to ask the group.

The command above is working for me and now I can see how the extra parameters are being passed from the outside application. The problem is that instead of a space between data1 and data2 there is a comma seperating them. My job would be easy if I could get the outside app to pass the qualifiers with a space but they are not able. I want to end up with 2 variables. Variable1 = data1, variable2 = data2

Any ideas?

Thanks again!

[itctravel]

Hey Guys, with your help, I now completed my script and am very happy with the results. Thanks to all for your guidence!