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Questions tagged [argument-passing]

Argument-passing may refer to two different things: (1) the process of providing a program being started with some initial pieces of information (the arguments) on its command line; (2) the process of providing the initial values (the arguments) for the parameters of a function when it is called.

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Using process.start in a wpf application to invoke another wpf application

I am trying to invoke one wpf application from another wpf application. The invoking wpf application makes the call ProcessStartInfo BOM = new ProcessStartInfo(); BOM.FileName = @"D:\WPFAPPLICATION.exe"; BOM.Arguments =…
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Passing arguments or environment to Mac installer script

I tried to write installer with packagemaker which runs a shell script during installation. I want to pass some arguments to the shell script during silent mode installation. Something similar to $installer -pkg MyInstaller.pkg -my_argument1…
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How can I pass arguments into SwingWorker?

I'm trying to implement Swing worker in my GUI. At the moment I have a JFrame containing a button. When this is pressed it should update a tab displayed and then run a program in the background thread. Here is what I have so far. class ClassA { …
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C++ managed array size

I have this function(array^ a) How do I know the length of this array? Like C++, the size has to come with the function? Thanks,
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omit passing an empty quoted argument

I have some variables in a bash script that may contain a file name or be unset. Their content should be passed as an additional argument to a program. But this leaves an empty argument when the variable is unset. $ afile=/dev/null $…
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extending Lua: check number of parameters passed to a function

I want to create a new Lua function. I can use function with parameters (I'm following this link) in order to read function parameters. static int idiv(lua_State *L) { int n1 = lua_tointeger(L, 1); /* first argument */ int n2 = lua_tointeger(L,…
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Default argument in R function (formal argument matched by multiple actual arguments)

Simple question, I hope. I want to write a plotting function that has a default value for the y-axis label if the user doesn't specify. I'd also like to allow the ... argument for other plotting parameters, and allow the user to set ylab manually.…
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How do I pass arguments to C++ functions when I call them from inline assembly

So, I would like to be able to call functions from a c++ dll. For certain reasons, I would like to call them from an __asm block in my C++ code. My question is this: I know that before I call the function, I have to push its arguments on the stack…
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Can you call a servlet with a link?

Can you call a servlet with a link? For example link text And possibly pass parameters to the request object by adding them to the querystring. If not, I have seen this kind of thing: RequestDispatcher dispatcher =…
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bash string quoted multi-word args to array

The Question: In bash scripting, what is the best way to convert a string, containing literal quotes surrounding multiple words, into an array with the same result of parsed arguments? The Controversy: Many questions exist all applying evasive…
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Perl how to take advantage of a block argument in my subroutine (like grep does)

grep can be invoked in two ways as listed below. I properly miss a piece of information to understand this block magic. Maybe a good soul can explain to me how grep internal gets a reference to the block and deals with that or even better how can I…
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How to unshift or add to the beginning of arguments object in JavaScript

I've just learned the convention for popping off the first element of the arguments array (which I also learned is actually an Object). Now I need to do the opposite. I need to use an unshift operation to add a value to the beginning of the…
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void pointer as argument

The following C snippet: [...] void f1(void* a){ printf("f(a) address = %p \n",a); a = (void*)(int*)malloc(sizeof(int)); printf("a address = %p \n",a); *(int*)a = 3; printf("data = %d\n",*(int*)a); } void f(void){ void* a1=NULL; …
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pass parameters to php with shell

my question is probably easy to answer. i want to execute my php file with shell and pass parameters to it via shell example php test.php parameter1 parameter2 is there a way to do that except using GET ? thanks
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Problems passing arguments with callNextMethod() in R

My question: Why is callNextMethod() not passing arguments as expected to the next method? Situation: Say I have two hierarchical classes foo and bar (bar is subclass of foo) for which I have a method foobar that can dispatch for both classes (i.e.,…
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