In that case, command-line-arguments is probably what you want. It will include the strings for all of the arguments after --load <filename>.
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 3:18 PM Peter Wiehe <peter.wie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well I am misunderstood here. The manual and your answer are about > commandline args of Scheme in general. I am about args specifially for the > program (script). That's a big difference. > > I tried to find answers on the web and in the MIT/GNU Scheme docu and in > books. The existing texts (online and offline) are a great deal less > informative than in other languages like C or pretty much any other > language. So I have tried to find a solution by experimenting but that > doesn't get me far. So I have to ask newb questions. If I ever get a hang > on Scheme I would be pleased to write some tutorial. > > Kind regards > Peter > > Chris Hanson <c...@chris-hanson.org> schrieb am Do., 16. Mai 2019 00:04: > >> Please read the manual before asking this kind of question. Both your >> question about the command line, and the other about compiling files, are >> answered in the User's Manual. >> >> The advice to use command-line-arguments is not useful here, because that >> will only contain unknown arguments. Since --load is a known argument, it >> won't appear in that list. >> >> In any case it's not clear why you want to look at the command-line args >> in the first place. The --load argument is used to load a file of Scheme >> code; it has nothing to do with compilation. >> >> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 2:02 PM Peter Wiehe <peter.wie...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Am 15.05.19 um 14:22 schrieb Aaron S. Hawley: >>> > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 7:14 AM Peter Wiehe<peter.wie...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >> How do I access the commandline arguments? argv, *ARGV* and ext:*ARGV* >>> >> don't work. I get the error "Unbound variable" (when I type "scheme >>> >> --load myprog.scm"). >>> > The procedure for retrieving command-line arguments with --load is >>> > called `command-line-arguments'. >>> > >>> > >>> https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-scheme-user/Command_002dLine-Options.html >>> >>> Thank you very much, but I unsuccessfully tried the following: >>> >>> ------------------------- >>> >>> (define inputfile 0) >>> >>> (set! inputfile (open-input-file (car (command-line-arguments)))) >>> >>> ------------------------ >>> >>> What is the correct usage of command-line-arguments? >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MIT-Scheme-devel mailing list >>> MIT-Scheme-devel@gnu.org >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-devel >>> >> _______________________________________________ > MIT-Scheme-devel mailing list > MIT-Scheme-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-devel >
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