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douglaswade11-Visitor
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July 1, 2013
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command line

  • July 1, 2013
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Ok, I am too lazy to find it my email mess. I want to do a perl (or bat)
script firing off Arbortext from a command line with Arbortext opening a
file, running a set command, validate, save it out and the perl script
continues doing more magic.

#--- Sets the length of the file width before a line break
set outputrecordlength=10000


I went looking thru 10 years of emails and cannot find it. But, I know Clay
or Liz (plus dozen others could answer it in their sleep).

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    ClayHelberg18-Opal
    18-Opal
    July 1, 2013
    Hi Doug--

    I'm not sure about the "in my sleep" part--though some days I feel like I'm doing all my programming in my sleep... 😉

    Anyway, about your question, you can use the -c switch when starting Arbortext to execute a command, e.g.

    C:\Program Files\PTC\Arbortext Editor\bin\x64\editor.exe -c "print composed" foo.xml

    So, you can combine this with Windows command syntax (a batch file) to iterate over a set of files, something like this:

    :REM print all files in directory
    for %%i in (*.xml) do (
    echo "C:\Program Files\PTC\Arbortext Editor\bin\x64\editor.exe" -c "print composed" %%i
    )

    If you want to do something at all complicated inside Arbortext, I'd recommend defining a function to accomplish it, and then calling the function in this way. The idea is to make the code you pass to the -c parameter on the command line as simple as possible.

    --Clay

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    ClayHelberg18-Opal
    18-Opal
    July 1, 2013
    Except take the "echo" out of the command inside the loop. (I didn't actually want to print all my XML files when testing the script...)
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