On 03/08/15 09:36, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Lukasz Sokol wrote: >> On 31/07/15 16:41, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >>> Lukasz Sokol wrote: >>>> On 31/07/15 14:46, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >>>>> Lukasz Sokol wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I tried piecing something like in $topic together, >>>>>> >>>>>> intended as an 'interactive' command interpreter for my program. (which >>>>>> will in time grow an 'embedded' web server and intended to >>>>>> run as a (windows) service, but it's too early for that at the >>>>>> moment) >> >>> Looking at your question another way, I suppose that you also have >>> the issue of parsing a command as well as handling the data entry. I >>> think that there's various possibilities here depending on what >>> you're trying to handle: >>> >>> * A simple sequence of names/numbers. >>> >> Supposedly this would do, parameters mostly are numbers (but when parsing >> through a TStringList everything is a string first anyway, so I can define >> some rules as to which parameter is what type) > > Parse the first word to an enumeration, feed that to a case. Leave options > for terminating characters, case sensitivity and so on. >
Hmm, yeah, guess I complicated my case 'a bit' by keeping the command/function mapping in a static array... Back to the drawing board ;J >>> * A unix-style command line, with leading options. >> >> Would be nice, however I don't need 'if' or explicitly defined looping >> instructions... > > No, I mean parsing of options starting - or -- together with their > parameters. 'if' etc. are part of the shell, so are a distinct issue. > Ah, ok. So , no, that's not needed in my case. Thanks, el es _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
