command-line args in erl

[Wes James]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Wes James <comptekki@REDACTED> wrote:
> I am running through the mandelbrot example from:
>
> http://projects.trapexit.org/web/#/web/project/github::ghulette::mandelbrot-erlang
>
> and it has:
>
> main([WArg,HArg]) ->.....
>
> so you can provide command-line args like main 200 200, but how do you
> do provide command line args in erl?
>

<snip>

I changed main to main(WArg,HArg) ->

and this code:

main(WArg,HArg) ->
  W = WArg, %list_to_integer(atom_to_list(WArg)),
  H = HArg, %list_to_integer(atom_to_list(HArg)),
  MaxI = 255,
  render(W,H,MaxI),
  init:stop().


to just have single value and it works for testing.   I'm still
wondering how to pass args in erl though - or is the [var1, var2]
always interpreted as command line args are expected?

thx,

-wes