POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: How to pass a string from the command line - help?: Re: How to pass a string from the command line

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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 2 Oct 2008 06:47:51
Message: <48e4a6d7$1@news.povray.org>

Chris B wrote:
> 
> "Mathuin" <mat### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
> news:web.48e3fa9f79b5340cd8a103ef0@news.povray.org...
>> Now what I really want to do is have "content.inc" and 
>> "othercontent.inc" and
>> "stillothercontent.inc" then modify the template to contain '#include 
>> Content'
>> and have the specific include file chosen via the command line 
>> something like
>> this:  povray -Itemplate.pov Declare=Content="content.inc"  Alas, the
>> command-line version of Declare appears to be limited to floats.
> 
> Three approaches immediately spring to mind.

It is a lot easier than that:

Use the Include_Header / +HI command-line option. Documentation at 
http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/220/ .

	Thorsten

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