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@ECHO ON setlocal enableDelayedExpansion FOR /L %%N IN (0,1,2) DO ( set skip=%%N set "word1=" REM set "word2=" FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN ('MORE +!skip! 1.txt') DO IF NOT DEFINED word1 SET "word1=%%A" ECHO !word1! FOR /F "tokens=*" %%B IN ('MORE +!ski...

Try enabling delayed expansion and enclose the variables in quotes or brackets. @ECHO OFF setlocal enableDelayedExpansion FOR /L %%N IN (0,1,2) DO ( FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN ('MORE +%%N 1.txt') DO SET "word1=%%A"&GOTO :next :next FOR /F "tokens=*" %%B IN ('MORE +%%...

@ECHO OFF FOR /L %%N IN (0,1,2) DO ( FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN ('MORE +%%N 1.txt') DO SET "word1=%%A"&GOTO :next :next FOR /F "tokens=*" %%B IN ('MORE +%%N 2.txt') DO SET "word2=%%B"&GOTO :end :end IF %word1%==%word2% ( ECHO yes ) ELSE ( ECHO no ) ) PA...

Please change your code to: FOR /F "tokens=3 skip=4" %%A IN ('REG QUERY "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v Desktop') DO CALL CD /D %%A The CALL command dissolve the "%USERPROFILE%". With CD /D command will change also the dr...

@ECHO ON CD C:\ FOR /F "tokens=3 skip=4" %%A IN ('REG QUERY "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v Desktop') DO CD %%A REM should return REM %USERPROFILE%\Desktop REM for English-version Windows PAUSE I have no idea why it doesn't work wi...

Is this just trying to do exponents? Either try "exit /b" for "GOTO :EOF" or: @echo off set base=3 set mult=%base% set power=3 for /l %%a in (2,1,%power%) do set /a mult*=%base% echo %mult% pause Both ideas untested, though. Yes, tested. It works. Thank you. Based on your script...

Thanks to aGerman in the previous post. SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION does expand the run-time variable, if the wordings are correct technically. @ECHO ON SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION SET base=3 SET power=3 FOR /L %%A IN (1,1,%power%) DO CALL :Count %%A ENDLOCAL PAUSE GOTO :EOF :Count index SET...

aGerman wrote:Variable skip is assigned inside of the else block. Each environment variable assigned in the same command line or block does not expand to the value except you would use EnableDelayedExpansion ...

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aGerman

Yes, a common mistake.
Thanks, aGerman.

@ECHO ON SET base=3 SET power=3 FOR /L %%A IN (1,1,%power%) DO CALL :Count %%A PAUSE GOTO :EOF :Count index SET /A times=%1-1 IF NOT %times%==0 ( CALL :ToPower %base% %times% SET /A skip=10-%n% ECHO %skip% ) PAUSE GOTO :EOF :ToPower SET n=1 FOR /L %%C IN (1,1,%2) DO SET /A n*=%1 GOTO :EOF PAUSE C:\...

::@echo off REM SET /P base="How many directory(s) at each level? " REM SET /P power="How many time(s) / level(s) of directories? " SET base=3 SET power=4 :Control FOR /L %%Z IN (1,1,%power%) DO CALL :CreateDirectories %%Z PAUSE GOTO :EOF :CreateDirectories index IF NOT EXIST %~...

@ECHO ON SET base=3 SET power=4 :Control FOR /L %%Z IN (1,1,%power%) DO CALL :CreateDirectories %%Z PAUSE GOTO :EOF :CreateDirectories index IF NOT EXIST %~dp0log.log ( CALL :Make ) ELSE ( SET /A times=%1-1 CALL :CountLines CALL :ToPower %base% %times% SET /A skip=%lines%-%n% IF %skip% EQU 0 ( FOR ...

Yes, no need to use EnableDelayedExpansion.
And still reading those complicated codes... hardest ever to me...

Any simpler way in DOS?
Arithmetic operators for powering a number?

@echo off set line=5 call :GetLine %line% pause goto :EOF :GetLine set /A skip=%1-1 if %skip% gtr 0 ( set skip=skip=%skip% ) else ( set skip= ) for /F "%skip% delims=" %%a in (words.txt) do ( echo %%a exit /B ) Yes, they can be all done by skip, MORE or setting a counter. Thanks a lot.

Yes, thanks for your examples. This teaches me more about how to make use of MORE. I used to be unable to make use of MORE because it lists the rest of the lines starting from +_LineNumber. But with the SET var=, it's possible to extract only that line much like the use of "break" in the J...