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It could be done, but as I've said from the very beginning, I have no interest in writing code to de-obfuscate a script that has already been obfuscated.

Interesting. I have the exact same configuration on my Win 10 desktop, and I get the same behavior. I re-read the cmd help, and I believe it is functioning as documented. ..................................................................... You can enable or disable completion for all invocations of...

Your technique can work if you simply define displayvar properly. It works because SET /A can expand a variable on its own.\ @echo off setlocal SET var[1]=12 SET var[2]=23 set "displayvar=var[#]" set /a var=%displayvar:#=1% echo %var% --OUTPUT-- 12 But why on earth are you structuring things this wa...

Hell, I already new I could do: So why didn't I realize all I needed was an absolute path?! The .\ hack naturally follows.

1) Special characters listed in cmd help ... If completion is enabled with the /F:ON switch, the two control characters used are Ctrl-D for directory name completion and Ctrl-F for file name completion. :o Dind't know this, nor read this before. But CTRl-F doesn't work for me on win10, it opens a "...

Below are some newly discovered cmd.exe facts (at least for me) that likely no one cares about 1) Special characters listed in cmd help The following statement at the end of the cmd help (HELP CMD or CMD /?) used to really irk me. The special characters that require quotes are: <space> &()[]{}^=;!'+...

Interesting project. I've had a brief moment to try this out - I see some very nice features

I'm looking forward to the full release with documentation

Steffen's suggestion of adding |UTF-16 to the file names uses ADO, which is fine.

Another option is to use the /UTF option to take advantage of CSCRIPT's native ability to read UTF-16. It should be marginally faster.
Dave Benham

An alternative to adding the Q key that can freeze the game is to use the presence of a file as a signal that the player has died. I used that technique for multiple purposes in SNAKE.BAT. and, Doh! you forgot to add a Quit option to the Menu :!: Here is the modified code @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDE...

But your mention of 0 vs 1 reminded me that I forgot to subtract one from the score upon returning from the pipe when you die. I fixed the code a few posts back.

So I could differentiate between quit while alive and death. That allows me to ECHO out "You died" when appropriate. The window title is reset once the child processes are terminated.

Nicely done. I assume you've seen SNAKE.BAT . It didn't take much to enhance your code to allow cleanly exiting the game. My added/modified code is in lower case. Press Q to exit the game. This could be before or after you die. Either way, your final score is printed. @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYE...

The /INC option does not help because it is line based - all text within the included lines is searched. But you want to search only the text on the line(s) that is between the braces. You need the /P and /PREPL options to specify the regions of the file to search. You need /M because the braced tex...

Similar to elzooilogico's answer, but more efficiently and without extraneous output:

Your problems are related to working with large CSV files, having nothing to do with trimming a string to 300 characters. So I edited your title. You ought to consider doing your entire job with a scripting language better suited to the task - PowerShell, VBS, or JScript would all be better. But the...