Re: [gforth] (novice) looking for example to use somevar=argv[1] ??

[Francois Pussault]

Thanks

It looks more logic.. now...

I will try a very simple code tomorrow to experiment that :)



> ----------------------------------------
> From: Joel Rees <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sun Jun 18 00:30:35 CEST 2017
> To: Gforth <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [gforth] (novice) looking for example to use somevar=argv[1] ??
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 5:47 AM, Francois Pussault
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I don't understand the official doc page 
> > https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/OS-command-line-arguments.html
> > so I cannot use args.
> >
> > gforth  foo.fs  5 10
> > using a code like :
> >
> > 1 arg type CR
> >
> > display it  ok but as a text so I cannot affect that numbers to  variables
> 
> Shell command line arguments generally indicate many things, including
> numbers. That means that, when a program looks at a command line
> argument, it is looking at a text string -- a string of characters. It is up 
> to
> the program to convert that string to a number if the program wants a
> number.
> 
> Take a look and "Line input and conversion" for some clues about how to
> do that:
> 
> https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Line-input-and-conversion.html#Line-input-and-conversion
> 
> It seems to be about converting text from the keyboard, but the same
> principles should apply.
> 
> The words >number , >float , s>number? , and s>unumber? are of
> particular interest.
> 
> -- 
> Joel Rees
> 
> One of these days I'll get someone to pay me
> to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C.
> Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef,
> run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define,
> and stop all integer size bugs with my bare cast.
> http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2017/06/reinventing-computers.html
> 
> More of my delusions:
> http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2017/05/do-not-pay-modern-danegeld-ransomware.html
> http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html
> 


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