Thread: command line asterisk converted to list

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    The superhaterodyne twomers's Avatar
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    I like it. How'd you find it? See the slightly white tinge? (anyways, back to topic).

    replacing the * with a x or a X for multiplication would solve it, right?

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    [offtopic] I was formulating a response that would exact my revenge for the supposed usage of system() that wouldn't get me banned or in trouble with your famous "passionate hatrid". [/offtopic]

    Yes, that would solve the problem. [edit] Unless you came across an exotic shell whose writers wanted their program to be able to take "*" as an argument, so they used "X" as a wildcard instead. [/edit]
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    If you are using a microsoft compiler and link with setargv.obj found in the compiler's lib directory, the setargv.obj will expand wild cards * and ? before calling main() as you described in your original post.

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    So could you use WinMain()?
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    twomers, that's probably the best thing to do in my case, it's just a simple program and no real effort really needs to be put into it. thanks for that solution
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