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madmatt



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madmatt 26 Mar 2008, 17:20
Hi everyone,
Are there any windows functions that parse the command line?

I have this so far:
proc main
local argc:DWORD, argv:DWORD
Code:
     invoke  GetCommandLine
     invoke  CommandLineToArgvW, eax, addr argc
     mov     [argv], eax    


which gives me a pointer to the full command line, but doesn't parse it. Are there any magic functions that do this?
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revolution 26 Mar 2008, 17:26
I think you are using it wrongly, CommandLineToArgvW is a UNICODE function and expects a UNICODE input parameter.

Code:
...
invoke  GetCommandLineW  ;<--- Note the extra "W" character
invoke  CommandLineToArgvW, eax, addr argc
...    
W95 SDK wrote:
The CommandLineToArgvW function parses a wide-character Unicode command-line string. It returns a pointer to a set of wide-character Unicode argument strings and a count of arguments, similar to the standard C run-time argv and argc values. The function provides a way to obtain a Unicode set of argv and argc values from a Unicode command-line string.
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madmatt 26 Mar 2008, 23:13
Yeh, you're right.,
I forgot it returns and array of pointers to UNICODE strings and not normal byte strings, thanks for reminding me Smile !
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jazz



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jazz 15 Jul 2018, 22:55
But how can I output and/or parse those Unicode command-line parameters?

Because:

Code:
  invoke GetCommandLineW
  invoke CommandLineToArgvW, eax, argc
  mov    [argv], eax
  invoke MessageBoxW, NULL, [argv], 'TestDlg', MB_OK    


Code:
> foo.exe quux    


A dialog is opened:

Code:
---------------------------
TestDlg
---------------------------
鰤鲒
---------------------------
OK   
---------------------------    


That was not what I wanted - and it makes working with the input values rather hard.
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revolution 16 Jul 2018, 00:24
IIRC argv is a list of pointers. You need to read the pointers to find each string.
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jazz 16 Jul 2018, 00:30
Wouldn't the address point to the first item anyway? At least that's what it does in C. Sad

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revolution 16 Jul 2018, 00:31
The first item is a pointer to the first string. The second item is pointer to the second string. etc. IIRC
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jazz 16 Jul 2018, 00:50
Can I just get that with argv[0]?
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revolution 16 Jul 2018, 00:54
You have a pointer to a list of pointers. So ...
Code:
mov ecx,[argv]
invoke MessageBoxW, NULL, [ecx+4*0], 'TestDlg', MB_OK    
...might work for you.
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Ali.Z



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Ali.Z 16 Jul 2018, 05:07
since this topic/thread is about consoles, i would like to ask a question:

some console programs require cmd to run and passing some function name and parameters or arguments.
like:
C:\Users\ali> utility.exe createfile -r -b file.txt

such things are interesting to me, because i dont know how they work.
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revolution 16 Jul 2018, 09:11
You can parse the arguments directly in your code. You don't have to use CommandLineToArgvW if you find it easier to do it yourself.
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Ali.Z 16 Jul 2018, 12:35
hmm parsing, it didnt came in my mind.

i can parse them, already did for an .ini file

anyhow, so assuming i wanna make something that must be executed from cmd then readconsole should be my first api.
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jazz 16 Jul 2018, 18:33
revolution wrote:
You have a pointer to a list of pointers. So ...
Code:
mov ecx,[argv]
invoke MessageBoxW, NULL, [ecx+4*0], 'TestDlg', MB_OK    
...might work for you.


Sadly, no: "operand size not specified". But thank you for your effort!

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revolution 16 Jul 2018, 21:44
Okay, well then you need to add a dword override.
Code:
 ... dword[ecx+4*0] ...    
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jazz 16 Jul 2018, 21:46
Thank you, that works (and it's sufficiently ugly). Smile
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revolution 16 Jul 2018, 21:48
You can get each parameter with [ecx+4*n], for n = 0,1,2,...
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jazz 17 Jul 2018, 00:13
In theory... but how can I extract argc? Because something's not right here:

Code:
start:
  invoke GetCommandLineW 
  invoke CommandLineToArgvW, eax, argc 
  mov    [argv], eax ; we'll need that later

  ; Make sure we have 1 or more args:
  cmp    dword[argc], 1
  jbe    exit

  ; Init loop:
  mov    ecx, 1
  mov    eax, [argv]

@@:
  invoke MessageBoxW, NULL, dword[eax+4*ecx], 'TestDlg', MB_OK

  ; Repeat until ecx = argc-1:
  inc    ecx
  cmp    ecx, dword[argc]
  jb     @B  

exit:
  invoke ExitProcess, 0    


Now:

Code:
> foo.exe                # nothing happens - good!
> foo.exe quux           # a msgbox with "quux" opens - good!
> foo.exe quux quax      # a msgbox with "quux" opens, then the application exits.
> foo.exe quux quax quox # a msgbox with "quux" opens, then the application exits.    


Hum. Confused

According to my limited understanding, cmp ecx, dword[argc] should put the result of "1 < argc" into the active register and jb @B should jump back to @@ if it's smaller...?

(Sorry for being dumb. I promise to remember what I'll learn here!)
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revolution 17 Jul 2018, 01:00
ECX and EAX are not preserved by the API calls. You can use EDI, ESI or EBX
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jazz 17 Jul 2018, 01:04
Ouch. I thought that EAX to EDX would just be "variable box 1 to 4"... so I'll basically need to put argc, the counter and argv elsewhere?

Is there any idiot-friendly overview over which register can store what? Embarassed
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Ali.Z 17 Jul 2018, 04:02
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions
fasm use stdcall by default (which personally i prefer)

nowadays every register can be used as general storage, even ebp but with exception for esp.
using stdcall (and some other calling conventions) eax, edx and ecx are caller saved (volatile), while rest are callee saved (non-volatile).

if you are looking for naming and meaning:
reg - usage = name ~ preservation

volatile caller saved
eax - general purpose = accumulator ~ volatile
(expect 99% of winapi calls return your value in this register)
ecx - general purpose = counter ~ volatile
edx - general purpose = data ~ volatile
(as a guy who reverse engineer, found 1-3 apis return some useful data in edx)

non-volatile callee saved
ebx - general purpose = base ~ non-volatile
ebp - general purpose / stackframe = base pointer ~ non-volatile
(used to save stackframe, in other words the callee can push and pop as many words and dwords in the stack and then the callee return stackframe to it previous state) (note that ENTER and LEAVE asm instructions can be used to preserve the stack)
Code:
example:
push ebp
mov ebp,esp
...
mov esp,ebp
pop ebp
ret ; no need to calculate bytes pushed to use RET 02, RET 04 or 08 ...    

esp - general purpose / stackpointer = stack pointer ~ non-volatile
(exception: you dont want to move a value into esp without saving it into another register (edi,esi,...) but in general you dont want to use esp as a register)
esi - general purpose = source index ~ non-volatile
(some asm instructions affect esi, string/character operations
edi - general purpose = destination index ~ non-volatile
(some asm ins ... same as esi)
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