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Posted: **27 Jan 2011 05:47**

how to save the text in a text file into a variable as input?

how to set output of a command as a variable?

Posted: **27 Jan 2011 08:47**

Explore the use of "FOR /F" for these. Anything over one line will have to go to multiple variables (as far as i know).

Examples:

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for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('echo.I like turtles') do set testvar=%%a
echo.%testvar%

Output:

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I like turtles

File test.txt:

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this is a test on line 1.
this is a test on line 2.

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for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (test.txt) do set testvar=%%a
echo.%testvar%

Output:

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this is a test on line 2.

This FOR will set the final line in the file as a variable. Generally you would search the file for the line you want versus setting each line to a variable.

Posted: **28 Jan 2011 13:14**

There is a small trick to get the first line of a text file.

set /p "testvar="<"test.txt"
echo %testvar%

Regards
aGerman

Posted: **18 Feb 2011 12:47**

aGerman wrote:There is a small trick to get the first line of a text file.
set /p "testvar="<"test.txt"
echo %testvar%

Regards
aGerman

thank u
interesting

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