passing arguments

I want to execute a program from within my program rite but I want to sent some parameters to it. It is a game engine and I want to send the parameter of wether or not to open a saved game or not. Do any of u know how to do this it seems like something that can be done.
Thanx in advace

Kas 2002

Do you know how to run the program from within your program ?
Mind mentioning the OS ?

Code:

#include "crystal_ball.h"
if ( vision ( divine ) ) {
  printf( "Woo Hoo!\n" );
}

Windows 98 but it would be nice to have it portable though cause it is a game. Thanx for the link Salem but I read that and it didn't really help me too much

Is this what you mean? You can build up a command using sprintf, then pass the output to system().

Get the user to input options (and check that the values are correct), or preselect them yourself. Build a command into a single string using sprintf then pass that to system().

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{
  char string[20];
  char command[10] = "ls";
  char opt1 = 'l';
  char opt2 = 'u';


  sprintf(string, "%s -%c -%c", command, opt1, opt2);

  printf("The string is : %s\n\n", string);

  /* system(string); */

  return 0;
}

Arrgh! Sorry, didn't check that I was logged in, that was me. And sorry for the C instead of C++.
This should work, but I can't compile it properly here as my compiler is older than me. Time for an upgrade methinks.
Use:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>

using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
  char string[20];
  char command[10] = "ls";
  char opt1 = 'l';
  char opt2 = 'u';

  sprintf(string, "%s -%c -%c", command, opt1, opt2);

  cout << string << endl;

  // Don't run this command on Dos as ls -lu is a
  // UNIX command! Substitute with whatever it is
  // you wish to run
  //
  // system(string);

  return 0;
}

I don't think that is what I meant because I didn't fully understand it (sorry I just woke up)
in these code brackets I will try to show what I want

Code:

1. User Selects from the main menu weather they want to start  a new game or a saved game.
2. If they chose New game execute "Game.exe"
3. If they chose Saved Game get the filename.
(My game program can take one command line argument and that is the filename of a saved game. If this argument is not present then it starts a new game.)
4. Now take the name of the game they inputed and send it to my game.exe file
5. play the game. The saved game will be opened within the game.exe file.

sorry I prolly should have wrote sumthing like this form the beginning.

Well assuming you can manage the Question & answer session with the user (getting filenames etc), its basically

Code:

char game_name[100];
char save_name[100];
char command_string[200];

// input code here

if ( strlen( save_name ) > 0 ) {
    sprintf( command_string, "%s %s", game_name, save_name );
} else {
    sprintf( command_string, "%s", game_name );
}
system( command_string );

quick question

what does sprintf(); do?

sprintf is just like printf, only rather than sending the output to stdout it copies the formatted output to the target string.

If you try running the programs that were given as examples, but replace the call to system() with a call to printf() or cout, you should be able to see how it works.

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>

using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
  char string[30];
  char word1[] = "This";
  char word2[] = "is";
  char word3   = 'a';
  char word4[] = "string";
  int  number  = 1234;

  // This is were I copy all of the individual
  // strings, chars and numbers into the target
  // string, "string".
  sprintf(string, "%s %s %c %s %d!", word1, word2, word3, word4, number);

  cout << string << endl;

  return 0;
}

arguments through system("game.exe -filename.dft")
would sent the argument of -filename.dft to my program

Yes that is correct.

Anyway the following works. To make this more dynamic though you could prompt the user for the name of the program and the appropriate arguments. But it is hardcoded here for the sake of clarity.

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>

using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
  char command[30];
  char program[] = "game.exe";
  char argument[] = "filename.dft";

  sprintf(command, "%s -%s",program, argument);

  system(command);

  return 0;
}

sorry about not understanding u guys there sometimes I can sorta thick