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Here is the original thread I used for inspiration: http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2836 After you run the script from the command line type this: <nul set/p="%envar%" to see what 'envar' contains. I get: '>' as a result when I do your example on my win7 machine.

The Rem statement writes to getargs.txt and then the batch reads from the file created to assign the variable 'args'. This has been posted previously as a method to deal with poison strings. I stand on the shoulders of giants who could explain it better, I am sure. I suggest you copy and paste the b...

I have used what I have learned from this site to create a batch file to assign a string containg poison characters to a variable with the following batch file. It has its limitations that are described in the help section. If anyone can improve on this I would be grateful. Here is my attempt at Ass...

I used this in a script to write 'set LF=^' to a line in a file without a trailing space: for /f "tokens=2* delims=÷" %%a in ('"for %%b in (1) do rem ÷set LF=^÷"') do echo(%%a>>"%temp%\file.ext I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for but it worked for my purposes. C...

This routine works in pure batch with all english date settings and non pure batch in foreign ones: @echo off&SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion&goto :start or :English is faster on US machine :GetDate [EnVar] [/s] echo.GetDate [EnVar] Sets date into environment variable, EnVar as: mm-dd-yyyy e...

Thanks Dave,
It is certainly an advantage to not have to worry about placing escape chars. I just wish there was a way to get the all command line args with poison chars but without using a temp file.

I have a batch that I wish to assign the entire command line to a string ie. set "string=%*" However input from the command line may have speical characters such as: ^ & < > |, etc for instance: test.bat (This is a ~!@#)$^^^^%*^&_-^|=+ string) to get this result in a variable: stri...

That is exactly what I did and by the way I use your getkey.exe program all the time and I cannot thank you enough for that. I write numerous user interaction DOS snippets and it comes in very handy where set/p and choice just do not offer the same control over what uncontrollable users can do to me...

Let's say you wish to run a process until the user presses any key While waiting for the event you wish a process to keep running, ie. dispalay a running timer call :SetCR CR set timestart=%time% :loop call :calculatetime %timestart% timefromzero <nul set/p=%timefromzero%!CR! call :keypressedOrNot? ...

jeb the delayed expansion with quoted strings is a great solution, thanks. As I recall I had a batch routine that used set/p="%$Bs%..." with the $Bs set to non destructive backspace and it worked fine in Win 7 but not in XP. When I removed the quotes it worked in XP. I think I also had som...

@echo off set "msg=%~1" echo(Version2 if %1 equ %msg% (echo %1... is not quoted) else (echo %1... is quoted) pause echo(Version1 if %msg% equ %1 (echo %1... is not quoted) else (echo %1... is quoted) pause There you go. Neither of them worked, and version two did fail differently. d:\ABC>...

C:\testbatch>message.bat "Enter a string" 1 Version1 a was unexpected at this time. C:\testbatch>message.bat "enter a string" 2 Version2 "enter a string"... is quoted Would you please try running it on your own machine befor making assumptions in your reply?? thanks carl

my apologies

There does not seem to be an issue with poison characters in fact I have not even experimented with them on this simple routine. I have a batch that accepts user input and arg1 one and two are a "string" and variable submitted in either order. I went nuts trying to determine which was whic...