Working with value passed to an exe

[mack]

In one of my vb.net apps I pass a value to the exe file. I use the following code to handle the paramiter received and convert it to a string within the application.

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'get command peramiters
Dim CommandLineArgs As System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection(Of String) = My.Application.CommandLineArgs
For i As Integer = 0 To CommandLineArgs.Count - 1
Dim myvariable As String
myvariable = (CommandLineArgs(i))
Label1.Text = myvariable.Length 'only used for debug

If myvariable.Length = 0 Then

do something

End If

If myvariable.Length > 0 Then

do somethign else

End If

Next
End Sub

When a paramiter is sent it handles it correctly, but if no peramiter is sent it simple ignores both if statements.

The calue being sent is collected and passed to a variale (dim) so the value exists, even if it has no content. By checking the variable lenghth I was hoping to be able to confirm or eny if a value had been passed.

Is there somethign else I need to look into to determine if a peramiter has been passed to the exe. Does having no value passed bean that peramiter.lenghth = "0" would still not work?

I can confirm the value has been sent and received. I debuged this by assigning its value to a label, it showed the correct value within the app itself.

Thanks in advance.

Mack.

[mack]

As I suspected having no value, is not the same as having a value.lenghth = 0

To make it work...

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'get command peramiters
Dim CommandLineArgs As System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection(Of String) = My.Application.CommandLineArgs
For i As Integer = 0 To CommandLineArgs.Count - 1
Dim myvariable As String
myvariable = (CommandLineArgs(i))
Label1.Text = myvariable.Length 'only used for debug

If myvariable.Length = 0 Then

do something

exit sub
End If
Next

do somethign else

End Sub

by exiting the sub I don't need a second conditional statement, and can run the code that the 2nd if statement would have contained.

Mack.

[marcel]

I prefer to check for an empty (or null) string with the following code:

If String.IsNullOrEmpty(myvariable) Then ...

[kaled]

I have never used VB.net and I am not certain that I have understood the problem correctly, however I think there are two possibilities ...

1) The for loop is executed only if at least one command-line argument is supplied.
OR
2) Is Nothing should be used as the test.

I could be way off the mark.

Kaled.

[mack]

kaled and marcel, thanks for the replies. Marcel your solution is a lot more elegant than mines. Kaled, I think you're right. Because it was empty, it wasn't entering the loop. This would also explain why there where no compiler errors, because the condition simply wasn't met.

Mack.