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Although it is possible to do it that way, the question is why do it that way ? The code I posted was just a snippet. In reality it's many more lines, so I'd have to repeat the same code in each for...loop. I suppose I could put the duplicate code in a function, if that's the right word in Windows ...

Nice!

Thanks Antonio, that's how I originally had it (in fact is was 3 separate for loops for the different variables. I was convinced you could do it on one, and I think I've worked out a way. Basically set a variable which contains the other 3 variable names, and do an 'outer' loop on the new variable: ...

Hi, The current variable it is on. Basically I need to do something like this: for %%x in (%args% %defargsfile% %userargs%) do ( set currentvar=XXX for /f "tokens=1,* delims=-:" %%g in (%%x) do ( if <currentvar> equ %args% ( call :setarg "define" "%%g" "%%~h" ...

Hey, With a loop like this, is it possible to know which file or variable it's currently looping through? for %%x in (%args% %defargsfile% %userargs%) do ( for /f "tokens=1,* delims=-:" %%g in (%%x) do ( call :setarg "%%g" "%%~h" echo.Current variable is: xxx ) ) So kno...

Like an absolute boss!

Thanks

If I was explicitly using %1 %2 they'd always have to be in the same position. Well I disagree with that. This is what I'm currently doing: for %%x in (%*) do ( set arg=%%~x set /a a_count+=1 if /i [!arg:~0^,2!] equ [/d] ( if [!arg:~3!] neq [] for /f "delims=" %%x in (!arg:~3!) do set &qu...

Is there a best practice as to when variables should be enclosed like set "var=val"

Is it the case that if val contains spaces, enclose it, unless it's using a delayed expansion value:

set "var1=Hello world"
set var2=!var!

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Because %%~dpx expands to the path including the trailing backslash, which I don't need.

I wanted to allow different positions for the arguments.

If I was explicitly using %1 %2 they'd always have to be in the same position.

So command.cmd /t /s /v would behave differently to command.cmd /s /v /t as the argument values would change.

Hey,

Is it possible to do this in the one SET:



I can't quite get the combo right: %%~dp0,-1 for example.

Not necessarily validate them, as such, but break them up. So someone can enter /T:<path>, hence grabbing the first 2 chars, so I check for /T then take the rest of the string as another value, so <path>: REM Check for arguments for %%x in (%*) do ( set arg=%%x if /i [!arg!] equ [/l] ( set logtofile...

Hey, Why does this work: if /i "!arg:~0,2!"=="/t" ( rem Do this... ) but this doesn't: if /i [!arg:~0,2!] equ [/t] ( rem Do this... ) It results in: 2!] was unexpected at this time. Square brackets work fine for other manipulation though: if [!arg:~2!] equ [/t]... If I escape the...

foxidrive wrote:

Basically the output from mkvinfo is this:

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| + Title: Jellyfish-3-Mbps: Copy (2)

Plus, some files may contain multiple colons

What do you see when there are multiple colons?

In this case it would be just 'Jellyfish-3-Mbps', so between the 2 colons.

ShadowThief wrote:Also, it's worth noting that file names in Windows cannot include colons, so unless you're pulling these from a Linux machine, you really have nothing to worry about there.

Yeah, sorry. I didn't mean in the filename. Title is a meta data property of MKV files.