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if 1==1 ( set A= set /P A= [in parens] What shall A be? echo A=%A% ) set A= set /P A=[not in parens] What shall A be? echo A=%A% Only the second set /P works properly. When the statement is in a parenthesized block, it does not set the variable. While experimenting just now, I noticed two other ano...

This is offered more as something you might find useful than to ask a question. However, if you see possible improvements, I'm all ears. I use several batch files to relieve the burden of handling gothic-novel file and directory names in command prompt. Today I encountered a need to ensure that a wi...

Thanks, Dave. This is what I've done, and it works fine most of the time. Occasionally, however, there are multiple consecutive spaces in the argument which I'd want to preserve.

@echo off echo %1 shift echo %* --------- If the above batch file is run with arguments 1 2 3 4, the output will be: 1 1 2 3 4 Shift does not affect the value of %*, which retains all the original arguments. What I would like is for the first argument to be a normal argument (perhaps a 'switch' like...