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And now my own try of a progress bar. But with the use of 8 different steps per single character. It shows the progress bar in the window and in the title I'm using the unicode characters from U+2588 to U+258F. ▏ ▎ ▍ ▌ ▋ ▊ ▉ █ How it looks depends on the selected font. My best results are with a uni...

You can use a small function to exit only the current batch :exit-current-batch for /L %%# in (0 1 40) DO ( (goto) 2> NUL call set "_tmp=%%0" call set "_tmp=%%_tmp:~0,1%%" call set "_tmp=%%_tmp::=%%" if defined _tmp ( REM Current Batch entry found exit /b ) ) exit /b Just use CALL :exit-current-batc...

Is it possible to bypass the endlocal barrier/tunnel inside a call of variables that have LF or in any case the code to create multiline macros? Yes. You can even make it so that it's possible to return the macro to whatever mode it was in before. The :lineReturnTest test enables delayed expansion ...

Hi einstein1969, I don't see the relation between delayed expansion and line feeds here. Using of line feeds in macros just depends on code blocks. It is essential to use the parenthesis in the macro. rem define a line feed for using in macro definitions (Set $\n=^^^ %= this line is required =% ) se...

After reading Batch: How to Properly Use CHOICE Inside of CALL Function? The problem was probably a previously set of the errorlevel variable. I was curious whether it is possible to recognize this programmatically. "if defined variableName" doesn't work here, because it's true for pseudovariables, ...

Hi,

a bit nitpicking

new functions: :chr, :asc, :asciiMap (Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:34 pm)

I probably developed the ESC, DEL and CR (buffer overflow) technique, but the rest was just a copy and paste.

jeb

1) Undefined variables and an empty variable names behave differently (#5 and #6). Perhaps an empty variable name accesses some random existing variable :?: After some more testing, I found the behavior for an empty searchPath-variable name. If you use the expression "%%~$:X" or ""%%~$====:X" the n...

I would like to share some insights about the rarely used syntax of "%~$PATH:I" %~$PATH:I Searches the directories listed in the PATH environment variable and expands %I to the fully qualified name of the first directory found. If the environment variable name isn't defined or the file isn't found b...

Hi mataha, I don't understand why you use the "(goto) 2>nul" at all. And starting another batch file without CALL ? The (goto) construct can be used as a special EXIT with quite different behavior. (goto) works like EXIT /B, it pops the program stack and rolls back all SETLOCAL to the old state when...

Hi miskox,
It's simply the "f" in "%%f ... iller%%"
You used %%f as your FOR-metavariable, change that or use another variable name

Hi thousandsword, the problem is that all characters after the ECHO are still parsed and that results in this error. The first problem are the closing parentheses, but you can escape them with carets ( echo for /f "usebackq tokens=* delims=:" %%a in (`dir C:\myfolder\withmanyfiles\`^) do (echo File ...

Hi,

my first guess is: You use LF as line ending instead of CRLF.
This causes such suspicious behavior.

jeb

Hi CJM, interessting finding :D But, I don't understand why you used the prefix of: "@FOR %%$ in ($)do" This only seems to complicate things without bringing any benefit. Some of my thoughts and findings: - The echo cancellation only appears to be for ":" - The echo cancellation can be fixed by a si...

We have automation passwords that need to be encrypted for our financial applications. We have a password generator/randomizer that we use. When % symbols are present, we need to remember to always escape them, however, a lot of the folks forget to do that. Without further description of the involv...

Hi jfl, One side issue I'm still investigating is a good way to define a %%variable that generates a %. Using a %%p variable is easy, but this might interfere with a user-defined %%p variable. I tried using the same syntax with a caret, as for the other tricky characters: for %%^% in (1 2) do ... Th...