Passing batch argument to Choice command

[sambul35]

What does this output exactly tell you? Can you run a certain batch which accepts arguments with that snippet added?

[thefeduke]

What does this output exactly tell you? Can you run a certain batch which accepts arguments with that snippet added?

I did not add it to anything. I just ran the "snippet" itself, as posted. I called the one that I posted 'Arg2Choices.bat' and the output was:

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C:\Users\Zani\Scripts>arg2choices
Do you want to enter batch arguments? Y/N [color=#FF0040]N[/color]
Going nowhere....

C:\Users\Zani\Scripts>arg2choices gogo
keep going....

C:\Users\Zani\Scripts>arg2choices
Do you want to enter batch arguments? Y/N Y

Batch arguments:[color=#FF0040]fighting words[/color]

M:\Packages\DamageControl.bat fighting words

C:\Users\Zani\Scripts>

The script just Echoed the .bat filename and the reply that I gave as the arguments. What's to conclude? In my environment, one went through a choice process and the other did not. I made one kind of change. Perhaps a different kind of change would work for both.
John A.

[sambul35]

Thanks for your input. Below is a shorter version of my snippet tested in Win10, it must be run from a batch one wants to restart with arguments:

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@echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions EnableDelayedExpansion
set "mes1=Do you want to enter batch arguments? Y/N"
set "mes2=Batch arguments:"

if "%1"=="" (
   choice /c yn /n /m "%mes1%" /t 10 /d n
   if !errorlevel! equ 1 (
      echo/ & set /p "args=%mes2% > "
      if defined args (%~f0 !args!))
) else (...

If you want to run this snippet standalone, replace %~f0 with your batch full path & name. If someone can offer a short universal code that works in any Windows version that would be great.

[Sponge Belly]

Aacini wrote:

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set "vars=apl1=2,apl2=,apl3=kup,aplN=etc"
set "%vars:,=" & set "%"

Brilliant!

[thefeduke]

Not to worry about self-inflicted wounds. This construct works just fine with Win7 and always did.
All it needed was a context. I gave mine one by changing that last ') else (' to:

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) Else Set "args=%1"

I had not closed the scissors on my snippet.
John A.

[sambul35]

On alternative note, if a series of batch arguments is added with SET /P command, what would be an effective way to automatically separate them with delimiters while adding or right after? Each argument can be a letters, word, or 1-2 digits number, and a resulting series of arguments can consist of a mix of these types.