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All is in the title... Hereunder shows a very strange behavior... One file, two loopings... Is this a bug ? Is there a workaround available ? C:\Temp\test>ver Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] C:\Temp\test>type c:\temp\test.bat @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion dir *.avi for %%a in (*.avi...

foxidrive wrote:

Pilou wrote:Great, repleacing % by ! solves the problem indeed !

Do you know what happens to ! characters?

Hum, no... I hope never get one in my data

Great ! replacing % by ! solves the problem indeed !

In fact, I just enable delayed expansion by reflex but I didn't know that it has also an effet outside a for loop

Big, big thanx

Hi, I would like to know if it's possible to manage strings with at the same time & and | and " ? here is a snippet of my failed attemps : @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion ver echo ============== set ONE=u "A&B" v set TWO=ww %ONE% || xx echo ONE=%ONE% echo TWO=%TWO% e...

Great, thx a lot

With Win7 I had to adapt a little bit, which gives :
if "%CMDCMDLINE:~1,2%" == "md" pause

Hi everyone & thanks for this great and so useful DOS site I have a simple but unfortunately unanswered question : is there a way to detect whether a batch script is launched manually from a command prompt or by icon double-clicking ? The goal is to add a pause only with the second way... Thanks...