usebackq term

[john924xps]

Can someone please explain to me what the usebackq term means and what it's used for?

[abc0502]

"usebackq" is used to remove the double qoutes from arround a text in a for loop

have a look at this for loop:

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for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in ("C:\test.txt") Do echo %%a

see the <"C:\test.txt"> any thing between double qoutes is treated as a string so if you try this code it will display <C:\test.txt>

But if you add <usebackq> in the for loop

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for /f "usebackq tokens=* delims=" %%a in ("C:\test.txt") Do echo %%a

the <usebackq> will remove the double quotes around <C:\test.txt>, so the for loop will treat it as a location to the file test.txt in C:\ and will display the content of it.

I hope that clear enough