Command$ gives wrong data

[Jawade]

If I read the Command$, he expands the '*'.

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Extern _CRT_glob Alias "_CRT_glob" As Integer
Dim Shared _CRT_glob As Integer = 0

Print Command$

If I start the file 'test.exe' and give an wildcard, he expands it, despite
the first lines.

C:\Users\Beheerder\Sources\test>test test*
test.bas test.exe

What I want is 'test*'

[grindstone]

"A computer does not what you want it to do but what you tell it to do" ;-)

You have to put the parameter in quotes:

C:\Users\Beheerder\Sources\test>test "test*"
test*

[Jawade]

Thank you, but it don't work. It works with single quotes, and also with 'test* or -test*
But that is not the intention. I see it as a miss, sorry. I think I use -test*

[counting_pine]

This is to do with file globbing - it's enabled by default on all platforms. There is more info at KeyPgCommand.

[grindstone]

Very strange: Here the disabling of the file globbing works with

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'' For MinGW-w64 runtime:
Extern _dowildcard Alias "_dowildcard" As Long
Dim Shared _dowildcard As Long = 0

although my system is 32bit.

[Jawade]

It won't work:

test.bas(13) error 4: Duplicated definition in 'Declare Function Command ( ByVal
index As Long = -1 ) As String

And the example with parameter test* gives:

test.bas

I think to do my way with -test* A weakness bid, but it works.

[Jawade]

grindstone, it do not work, it gives also test.bas test.exe

I think it is a big miss. It looks like FreeBASIC is a kind of bloatware.

[fxm]

On my PC under Win7 64-bit, with the following code:

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Extern _dowildcard Alias "_dowildcard" As Long
Dim Shared _dowildcard As Long = 0

Print Command(1)

With input parameters:

test* test.bas test.exe

Program output:

test*

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With the code line:

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Print Command

I obtain:

test* test.bas test.exe

[grindstone]

Seems like _dowildcard works at both 32 and 64bit.

@Jawade: From my experience such persistent bugs are mostly caused by some trifle in the source code (at a place where you won't expect it). Please check your code before railing against freeBasic.

[Jawade]

fxm: Now it works, because I start de testfile after compiling. In a .bat compiled it didnt work well. Thank you.

[Jawade]

Sorry for that, but it's very frustrating if it won't work. I compiled it in a .bat and than it goes wrong. But nou I have the solution. Thanks to all.

[grindstone]

it's very frustrating if it won't work.

I know, I know... <grin>

[xlucas]

Interesting! I had always assumed that FreeBasic did not do this; that it happened in GNU/Linux only and because the system shell does it. I expected it to not work the same when run in DOS or Windows, but after reading this post and the wiki about Command, I think I understand why it is done. It looks like, because GNU/Linux does it and FreeBasic can't "undo it" in that platform, it has been implemented for the other platforms so that programs work the same way on all of them by default. This behaviour is different from that of QuickBasic, but what can one do? On the other hand, QuickBasic used to pass everything to uppercase and remove the leading space character (if present) from the command line before passing it to Command$. I remember I used to read the command line from the PSP instead when I needed to be able to see the upper/lower case.

It's not easy to face the job of making a programming language transparently cross-platform, I realise.

[jj2007]

I think it is a big miss. It looks like FreeBASIC is a kind of bloatware.

This comment tells me more about you than about FreeBasic.

The behaviour is certainly a bit odd, greetings from Linux, but if somefile* gets passed as a commandline, then it was definitely not a user who dragged a file over the executable. So it was another application. Instruct that application to use "#" instead of "*", and the problem is solved.

[St_W]

Seems like _dowildcard works at both 32 and 64bit.

Yes, because both the 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBasic builds for Windows are done with the MinGW-w64 toolchain now by default (since FB 1.0.0 IIRC). See also (e.g. for 1.05): https://freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24363 It lists the used toolchains and there's also a package built with the old mingw.org toolchain.