[Gate-users] Using ROOT -> ASCII; any way to pass command line variables? (SOLVED)

[Bryan McIntosh]

Michaela's response worked well for me, as did one from Rok Pestotnik; his
syntax was:

root -l -q -b test.C"(\"myfile.dat\")"

Many thanks to both for their help!

-Bryan

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> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:04:36 +0000
> From: "Gaens, Michaela" <m.gaens at fz-juelich.de>
> To: Bryan McIntosh <mcintoshster at gmail.com>
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> Hi Bryan,
>
> I have had a similar problem once and I don't remember where I found it,
> but this is how I am doing it now:
> You can define parameters for the main function in you root macro
> (rootout_scanner), e.g.:
>
> void rootout_scanner( char*  outname)
> {...}
>
> and then you can pass the parameters on the command line like this:
>
> root -l 'rootout_scanner.C( "rootout_scanner.dat" )'
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Michaela
>
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