placing text on screen

[ragster66]

Hi there.. If I type the following
pause
it displays
Press any key to continue
it shows this along the left edge of the screen.... How do get it to display say in mid screen.?

Similarly for this
set /p input=Choice:
the word choice: is on left of screen, how do I get it in mid screen?
Thanks

[Squashman]

The SET /P command consumes all white space at the beginning of the prompt string. So you have to trick it.

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@echo off

:: Define BS to contain a backspace
for /f %%a in ('"prompt $H&for %%b in (1) do rem"') do set "BS=%%a"

set /p "input=x%BS%                   Choice:"
echo %input%
pause

[Squashman]

And now we can use a little more trickery to get your desired result for the pause command.

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@echo off
:: Define BS to contain a backspace
for /f %%a in ('"prompt $H&for %%b in (1) do rem"') do set "BS=%%a"

set /p ".=x%BS%                       x%BS%"<nul&pause
echo.
echo. After Pause
pause