Get command line parameter by name

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Author: Chris Morgan (talk, contrib)


Description

Please contact me if you have trouble with this function, cmorgan@alum.wpi.edu

A function that uses the GetParameters function to retrieve the value of a command line argument. I wanted an easy way to retrieve parameters and modified the example given in the NSIS documentation.

Usage

You can use this like:

  Push "OUTPUT"         ; push the search string onto the stack
  Push "DefaultValue"   ; push a default value onto the stack
  Call GetParameterValue
  Pop $2
  MessageBox MB_OK "Value of OUTPUT parameter is '$2'"

This retrieves VALUE from a command line of /OUTPUT=VALUE or "/OUTPUT=VALUE WITH SPACES"

Be sure to add the GetParameters function to your script otherwise the GetParameterValue function below will throw a compiler error. 216.162.36.2 13:01, 12 October 2005 (PDT) Harold Solomon, harold@seraphimpartners.com

The Function

; GetParameterValue
; Chris Morgan<cmorgan@alum.wpi.edu> 5/10/2004
; -Updated 4/7/2005 to add support for retrieving a command line switch
;  and additional documentation
;
; Searches the command line input, retrieved using GetParameters, for the
; value of an option given the option name.  If no option is found the
; default value is placed on the top of the stack upon function return.
;
; This function can also be used to detect the existence of just a
; command line switch like /OUTPUT  Pass the default and "OUTPUT"
; on the stack like normal.  An empty return string "" will indicate
; that the switch was found, the default value indicates that
; neither a parameter or switch was found.
;
; Inputs - Top of stack is default if parameter isn't found,
;  second in stack is parameter to search for, ex. "OUTPUT"
; Outputs - Top of the stack contains the value of this parameter
;  So if the command line contained /OUTPUT=somedirectory, "somedirectory"
;  will be on the top of the stack when this function returns
;
; Register usage
;$R0 - default return value if the parameter isn't found
;$R1 - input parameter, for example OUTPUT from the above example
;$R2 - the length of the search, this is the search parameter+2
;      as we have '/OUTPUT='
;$R3 - the command line string
;$R4 - result from StrStr calls
;$R5 - search for ' ' or '"'
 
Function GetParameterValue
  Exch $R0  ; get the top of the stack(default parameter) into R0
  Exch      ; exchange the top of the stack(default) with
            ; the second in the stack(parameter to search for)
  Exch $R1  ; get the top of the stack(search parameter) into $R1
 
  ;Preserve on the stack the registers used in this function
  Push $R2
  Push $R3
  Push $R4
  Push $R5
 
  Strlen $R2 $R1+2    ; store the length of the search string into R2
 
  Call GetParameters  ; get the command line parameters
  Pop $R3             ; store the command line string in R3
 
  # search for quoted search string
  StrCpy $R5 '"'      ; later on we want to search for a open quote
  Push $R3            ; push the 'search in' string onto the stack
  Push '"/$R1='       ; push the 'search for'
  Call StrStr         ; search for the quoted parameter value
  Pop $R4
  StrCpy $R4 $R4 "" 1   ; skip over open quote character, "" means no maxlen
  StrCmp $R4 "" "" next ; if we didn't find an empty string go to next
 
  # search for non-quoted search string
  StrCpy $R5 ' '      ; later on we want to search for a space since we
                      ; didn't start with an open quote '"' we shouldn't
                      ; look for a close quote '"'
  Push $R3            ; push the command line back on the stack for searching
  Push '/$R1='        ; search for the non-quoted search string
  Call StrStr
  Pop $R4
 
  ; $R4 now contains the parameter string starting at the search string,
  ; if it was found
next:
  StrCmp $R4 "" check_for_switch ; if we didn't find anything then look for
                                 ; usage as a command line switch
  # copy the value after /$R1= by using StrCpy with an offset of $R2,
  # the length of '/OUTPUT='
  StrCpy $R0 $R4 "" $R2  ; copy commandline text beyond parameter into $R0
  # search for the next parameter so we can trim this extra text off
  Push $R0
  Push $R5            ; search for either the first space ' ', or the first
                      ; quote '"'
                      ; if we found '"/output' then we want to find the
                      ; ending ", as in '"/output=somevalue"'
                      ; if we found '/output' then we want to find the first
                      ; space after '/output=somevalue'
  Call StrStr         ; search for the next parameter
  Pop $R4
  StrCmp $R4 "" done  ; if 'somevalue' is missing, we are done
  StrLen $R4 $R4      ; get the length of 'somevalue' so we can copy this
                      ; text into our output buffer
  StrCpy $R0 $R0 -$R4 ; using the length of the string beyond the value,
                      ; copy only the value into $R0
  goto done           ; if we are in the parameter retrieval path skip over
                      ; the check for a command line switch
 
; See if the parameter was specified as a command line switch, like '/output'
check_for_switch:
  Push $R3            ; push the command line back on the stack for searching
  Push '/$R1'         ; search for the non-quoted search string
  Call StrStr
  Pop $R4
  StrCmp $R4 "" done  ; if we didn't find anything then use the default
  StrCpy $R0 ""       ; otherwise copy in an empty string since we found the
                      ; parameter, just didn't find a value
 
done:
  Pop $R5
  Pop $R4
  Pop $R3
  Pop $R2
  Pop $R1
  Exch $R0 ; put the value in $R0 at the top of the stack
FunctionEnd
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