about set "var=string" syntax

[colargol]

Hi

I still don't understand when we must use

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set "var=string"

instead of

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set var=string

Can someone explain please
set /? doesn't help

[Ed Dyreen]

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You use it as you like, the quoted version does not require escaping special chars

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@echo off

set "$var=| special &char"
set  $var

set $var=hello^
%       % there ^!
set  $var

set $var=hello^

there ^!
set  $var

pause
exit

[colargol]

Ok, very good examples

Thank you again Ed.

[jeb]

Hi colargol,

As Ed wrote, it's a good choice to be safer with special characters, but it's not bullet proof.
There is a second cause to use it.
It avoids the appending of invisible spaces at the line end.
Set var1=a<space>
Set "var2=a"<space>

In var1 is a<space> in var2 is only a
Jeb

[colargol]

Ok thanks jeb

This may be safer to use quotes when we manipulate filenames, like me.
Once I'll have finished my small app., I'll ask for help because I'd like my scripts to work with files containing those special chars (% & ^)
Currently, it supports only exclamation mark.