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function extractArgs(str) {
//return an array of unquoted arguments from the command line.
//we either want non quote stuff ([^"]+) surrounded by quotes or we want to look-ahead,
//see that the next character isn't a quoted argument, and then grab all the non-space
//stuff this will return for the line: "foo" bar the results "\"foo\"" and "bar"
var matches = str.match(/((?!"([^"]+)")\b(\S+)\b|"([^"]+)")/g)
//unquote the quoted arguments:
var args = new Array()
for(var i=0;i<matches.length;i++) {
args[i] = matches[i]
args[i] = args[i].replace(/^"(.*)"$/, "$1")
}
return(args)
}
You'll probably want to try to rewrite the getQueryParameter function to
use extractArgs instead of location.search if you need to use this trick.
function getQueryParameter(searchKey) {
var args = extractArgs(HTA_ID_Attribute.commandLine)
var clauses = args[1].split('&')
for(var i=0;i<clauses.length;i++) {
var keyValuePair = clauses[i].split('=',2)
var key = keyValuePair[0]
if(key==searchKey) {
return(keyValuePair[1])
}
}
return(null)
}
That way you can invoke your hta from the command line like this:
x.hta one=two&foo=bar
and getQueryParameter("foo") will return "bar".
You still can't do this from a file URL, because file URLs don't take
command line arguments. (It's really something of an abuse of the file
URL argument to open a program like .BAT, .HTA or .EXE using the file URL,
but many people do it anyway.)
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