Passing parameters to AutoIt programs

[Pieter]

How can I pass a parameter like this:

myprogram.exe /nosplash

to an AutoIt program and catch it?

[CWorks]

If $CmdLine[0] = 1 Then
    $something = $CmdLine[1]
EndIf

If $CMDLINE[0]= 1 Then

If $CMDLINE[1] = " /nosplash" Then

; do something

EndIf

Edited August 24, 2006 by CWorks

[Valuater]

Command Line Parameters

The special array $CmdLine is initialized with the command line parameters passed in to your AutoIt script. Note the scriptname is not classed as a parameter; get this information with @ScriptName instead. A parameter that contains spaces must be surrounded by "double quotes". <a href="compiler.htm">Compiled scripts accept command line parameters in the same way.

$CmdLine[0] is number of parameters

$CmdLine[1] is param 1 (after the script name)

$CmdLine[2] is param 2 etc

...

$CmdLine[$CmdLine[0]] is one way to get the last parameter...

So if your script is run like this:

AutoIt3.exe myscript.au3 param1 "this is another param"

$CmdLine[0] equals... 2

$CmdLine[1] equals... param1

$CmdLine[2] equals... this is another param

@ScriptName equals... myscript.au3

In addition to $CmdLine there is a variable called $CmdLineRaw that contains the entire command line unsplit, so for the above example:

$CmdLineRaw equals... myscript.au3 param1 "this is another param"

If the script was compiled it would have been run like this:

myscript.exe param1 "this is another param"

$CmdLineRaw equals... param1 "this is another param"

Note that $CmdLineRaw just return the parameters.

per help

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[Pieter]

@CWorks: thanks, that's what I was looking for.

@Valuater: congratulations on your 4800th post.