How to get the type of command line arguments

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i have passed the arguments from the command prompt to the form, i want to know the type of that arguments i passed, how to write code for that in vb.net

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if Environment.GetCommandLineargs(1).GetType
\\i have to check whether this argument is decimal or not

Posted 20-Feb-17 0:36am

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Updated 20-Feb-17 1:01am

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F-ES Sitecore · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-20T00:51:00

Solution 1

The arguments are always a string. If you want to see if that string can be converted to a decimal then use Decimal.TryParse[^]

Posted 20-Feb-17 0:51am

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Member 13012003 20-Feb-17 7:33am

Thanq...

OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-20T01:01:00

When you fetch command line arguments, they are always strings: they are "what the user typed on the command line to execute your application" - and you can supply them that way by opening a command prompt and typing the name of your app followed by space-separated parameters:

myApp Parameter1 "parameter 2 with spaces in"

As such, they don't have a type in the sense of "integer" or "decimal".
Use TryParse to check them:

VB

Dim value As Decimal
If Not Decimal.TryParse(Environment.GetCommandLineargs(1), value) Then
	' Report problem to user.
        ...
	Return
End If