Description
The paramcount function returns the number of arguments passed to the program. The type of the value returned by this function is always integer.
Parameters
None.
Example
For example, the following is a simple program args.pas, that uses the paramcount function to display the number of arguments passed to it.
program args(output);
begin
writeln('Number of program arguments =', paramcount)
end.
If you run the program with four arguments like below
ivm args this is a test
then the output would be
Number of program arguments = 4
since four arguments were passed to the program
Operating Systems: All
Standard Pascal: No