I am trying to start another program from sesame and pass the data contained in a field.
I tried below to pass a telephone number to a program that dials. I planed to use a command button with something like this.

var Vmydialer as int

Vmydialer = @shell ("c:\utils\mydialer.exe" < telephone)

Can someone please help? I seem to need more examples then I see in the manuals

Billgordon,

You might want to temporarily add the command

Writeln(vmyCommand) to your code.

Writeln() is a nifty little feature Sesames Sbasic has to display a pop-up window.

The Writeln(vmyCommand) line will display a box with the exact string of data that the program you are calling is receiving. If you have problems with your results you can see easily what is wrong or you can use edit cut commands from that pop-up box and place the string on a run command line directly to see if it works stand alone. ( This method has been helpful to me anyway)

Your final logic would look like this

var vMyDialer as Int
var vMyCommand as String
 
vMyCommand = "c:\utils\mydialer.exe < " + @Str(telephone)
Writeln(vmyCommand) //add this line
vMyDialer = @Shell(vMyCommand)