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Windows, GetCommandLine()

Started by Brobanx Nov 29, 2002 at 7:12 PM 2 replies 650+ views

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Nov 29, 2002 at 7:12 PM

Here''s my problem: When I call GetCommandLine(), sometimes (depending on how the program was executed), it returns the command line with the executable name included (ex: myprog.exe -arg1 -arg2), and sometimes without (ex: -arg1 -arg2). Is there any way to get exclusively the command line arguments, without the executable name in front? (checking the first argument against a constant wouldn''t work if the user were to rename the file).

Dean Harding

Nov 29, 2002 at 8:10 PM

I''m pretty sure that should never happen, unless maybe you''re using DDE... ?

Anyway, you can get the name of the executable using GetModuleFileName and passing in NULL for hModule. Then you can compare with the argument string (obviously, a string comparison isn''t good enough, you''ll to make sure they point to the same file...)

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Brobanx

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Nov 29, 2002 at 9:17 PM

Ok, thanks for the info guys. Turns out GetCommandLine() always includes the executable name as the first argument, so I can just skip it and go to the second argument.

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