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Pass Command-Line Input Argument to OnOpen

Technician — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 23:38:25 GMT

Hello,

I would like to select rows in a table based on command-line input parameter/arguments when opening *.jmp files. For example, in a Windows environment, I would like to run "$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp 2 5 9" and have OnOpen script to retrieve the "2 5 9" arguments and interpret them to be a matrix [2, 5, 9] for an input to the "Set Select Rows" function. Any thoughts or alternative ideas would be greatly appreciated from the community.

Re: Pass Command-Line Input Argument to OnOpen

frank_wang — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:19:38 GMT

Hi Technician

Hope below JSL can help you to solve the problem.

Names Default To Here( 1 );
dt = Open( "$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp" );
rows = dt << Get Rows( {2, 5, 9} );

Re: Pass Command-Line Input Argument to OnOpen

ih — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 11:52:15 GMT

I don't know of a way to get parameters sent to JMP directly, but two workarounds are:

Use environment variables as demonstrated here:
Call a batch file with arguments instead that saves those arguments to a file in a specific location and then opens JMP which reads that file.