First read from file always fails

[Birage]

As titled, the first read from the file always fails, as the displayed output will be "ECHO is off." Subsequent reads will be fine, as the IP address in IP.txt file will be displayed.

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@echo off

for /F %%A in (C:\Users\user1\Desktop\IP.txt) do (
	set F=%%A
	echo %F%
)

Sample output when script is run 3x:
ECHO is off.
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.1

[Squashman]

Environmental variables that are created and need to be referenced in a parentheses code block need to use delayed expansion.

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@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /F %%A in (C:\Users\user1\Desktop\IP.txt) do (
	set F=%%A
	echo !F!
)

[elzooilogico]

and more over, here simply

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echo(%%A

but, of course, details are not explicit

[Birage]

Thanks a lot for the tip guys ! setlocal enabledelayedexpansion did the trick.