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So I've been seriously messing with the Format function like you advised, and I know what the command is doing, I just don't quite understand what call is doing to make it work. For example, let's say later down the road, I run into a similar need for something like this, what is going to tell me: &...

That's awsome guys. Sorry for being such a noob, but it's amazing how one small unknown detail can make everything seem so complicated. Dave, the format function definitely sheds some more light on string manipulation. I've been using substrings, temp files and FOR loops and really over-complicating...

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IF NOT EXIST C:\MyDirectory\NUL ECHO It's FILE but _NOT_ FOLDER

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I misread the question... No harm done.

CALL SET v=%%map:*%v%-=%% becomes set v=%map:*thevalueofv-=% If you enter set /? in the console, you'll understand. it will replace *thevalueofv- inside variable map with nothing and store this inside v I got it, I use the substring functionality of SET all the time, but completely missed the parag...

I apologize if this isn't the right place to ask these types of questions, but I was looking at the example here: m REM ---- Example 1: Translate name of month into two digit number ---- SET v=Mai SET map=Jan-01;Feb-02;Mar-03;Apr-04;Mai-05;Jun-06;Jul-07;Aug-08;Sep-09;Oct-10;Nov-11;Dec-12 CALL SET v=...

This is an old trick, but I needed this exact same thing a couple of weeks ago, so it's fresh in my memory and it works up to Windows7. IF NOT EXIST C:\MyDirectory\NUL ECHO It's NOT THERE On a related note, this was a few weeks ago, but I *think* it had problems with spaces in the path, and quoting ...