We are not talking about code, we are talking about an EXE. Exe's do not accept anything but strings as parameters. In code, you can accept ANYTHING as a parameter.

I could be mistaken, but in all my time programming and using applications, once a program is compiled, there is no way (that I know of) to send starting parameters to said app, if not in a string format. The developer then needs to parse out the string, to create the array if he/she needs multiple parameters. Hence why you see many apps use a "/" as a delimiter between parameters.

>>No exe accepts "arrays" as parameters directly, an exe can only accept a string of parameters.
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>Um, well, that's not quite accurate. In order to send more than one parameter to an application, you define the Main like this:
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>[STAThread]
>static void Main(string[] args)
>{
>	if (args.Length > 1)
>		// do stuff with your parms
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>	Application.Run(new Form1());
>}
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>Sure looks like an array to me. <g>
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>Maybe VB is different? I dunno ...
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>~~Bonnie
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>>No exe accepts "arrays" as parameters directly, an exe can only accept a string of parameters. How the exe handles those parameters is up the the developer of the exe. Look at the command you are using, intellisense shows you that it needs a string value. All you need to do is suppy the data in the proper object (in this case a string) for the command and you'll be fine.
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>>>Hi Ben
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>>>Thanks for that, but that’s what I am getting confused about, doesn’t the main program that I am calling expect and array?
>>>Tia
>>>Stuart