Re: passing arguments

Hello Giovanni!

Supposed your ROOT program/macro file looks like this:

   void Test( const Char_t* Text )
   {
     cout << Text << endl;
   }
Then you can do the following call in the ROOT shell:

   root [] .x Test.C("Hello World" )

Regards

Thomas Lauf

Feverati wrote:
> Dear experts,
>
> is it possible to pass arguments to a root program from the root command
> line, like in ordinary C/C++ ?
> For example, something like
>
> .x <filename> 2.3456
>
> doesn’t seem to work.
> In C/C++ it would be
>
> a.out 2.3456
>
> Thank you
>
> Giovanni
>

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