Passing start parameters?

[h-faber]

Hi,

is it possible to catch start parameters which I want to submit on the command line? I want to call something like

myfortranprog.exe param1 param2

Is this possible, if so, how can I access these parameters in the Fortran code?

Thanks in advance.

[anthonyrichards]

Look at the DFLIB routine GETARG for getting command-line arguments, along with NARGS for counting them. You need to add USE DFLIB to your code.

[h-faber]

Hi,

thanks a lot, works perfectly!

How do you know of this lib and these functions? Is there any documentation available for this and the other libraries such as dfcom, dfauto etc.?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

All the library routines are documented in the on-disk documentation.

[anthonyrichards]

Hi. I should of course have mentioned that I use Compaq Visual Fortran (CVF) 6.6, not Intel Fortran, hence the mention of DFLIB.The routines are in appendix E in the printedFORTRAN Reference manual that came with it. I admit, the on-line documentation is lacking as to how to find them without knowing they are there.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I think you will find that the routine is listed in the on-disk documentation index, and is included in the documentation of the portability routines.

Note that in Intel Fortran, GETARG is an intrinsic routine.