04-09-2025, 03:15 PM
if you are doing any programming for linux. you have to be careful with dollar sign as well. unprotected something like $HOME would surprise another user of your program. but this should be needed in an utility which processes text files, which converts audio or images. or something like that. not in a gui program.
keep in mind that qb64 treats command$ differently from qb45. the older product had that function returning its value only in uppercase. there wouldn't have been an easy way around that. i used to write utilities that relied on the value of command$. but eventually had to turn away to look for ini-type files that could provide more input information. which could be a different pain for another person using my program. although i always required the main input text file to be in the same directory as the executable.
keep in mind that qb64 treats command$ differently from qb45. the older product had that function returning its value only in uppercase. there wouldn't have been an easy way around that. i used to write utilities that relied on the value of command$. but eventually had to turn away to look for ini-type files that could provide more input information. which could be a different pain for another person using my program. although i always required the main input text file to be in the same directory as the executable.