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Posted: **Sun May 09, 2010 9:41 am**

CobraCore.commandLineArgs is read-only.
Is there any way of modifying the list of arguments passed to the program?

Posted: **Sun May 09, 2010 11:25 am**

The list you get back can be modified, but if you invoke the method again from somewhere else, you get a new list:

get commandLineArgs as List<of String>
    return List<of String>(Environment.getCommandLineArgs)

I just always assign it to a local anyway and then pass it around if I need to. Something like:

class Program

    def main
        args = CobraCore.commandLineArgs
        for arg in args, print arg
        Foo().bar(args)

class Foo

    def bar(args as IList<of String>)
        pass

This also means that Foo().bar() can be reused in other ways because it takes an argument instead of using a global source. Also you can do this if you want to skip the program name:

args = CobraCore.commandLineArgs[1:]

HTH

Posted: **Sun May 09, 2010 11:30 am**

Oh, so there is no way to modify the original argument list? In Ruby I could do ARGV.clear and it would empty the command line arguments.
I realize this may not be the way to go, but I just wanted to know if it was possible

Posted: **Sun May 09, 2010 5:36 pm**

I don't think there is. The args originally come from the "Environment" class whose members are listed here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment_members.aspx

But I don't see anything to clear them.

Posted: **Mon May 10, 2010 9:05 pm**

Yeah, I don't think in .NET there's any straight forward method of going about that. Now I'm curious though, why would you want to clear or modify the command line arguments?

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