Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!a10g2000vbz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: A2CPM Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.programmer Subject: Re: Proposed command line argument extraction for Kyan Pascal Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:47:59 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.125.140.155 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1307980079 28060 127.0.0.1 (13 Jun 2011 15:47:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:47:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a10g2000vbz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.125.140.155; posting-account=aN3jDwoAAADOaceeGr1YEBdfnBNNGc10 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.apple2.programmer:39 Hi! On Jun 12, 11:03=A0am, John wrote: <--- snip ---> > Why not return a pointer? <--- snip ---> > Just wondering out loud about other approaches. I'm a little pointer-phobic but you have made a good suggestion so I'll probably implement 'ParamStr' as you've suggested. I got something working this morning but doing it right will take more work. Willi