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I recently experienced a problem with the 'set /p variable=' command.

Here is the problem code


The intention of this was so that whatever the user inputs will be passed as the next line of code, like the CMD box does.

The problem I experienced was that when a user inputs a variable, the variable name is outputted rather than the variable content
Eg. when the user inputs 'echo %cd% the output is:

Input:echo %cd%
%cd%

%cd% is outputted rather than the actual content of that variable which, in this example, would be the current directory, or C:\Users\Sean\Desktop.

I have come up with a somewhat inefficient way around this problem:


As you can see, the variable is inputted into a batch file (echo %input% >temp.bat), this file is then called (call temp.bat) and then deleted (del temp.bat).
This does solve the problem but it seems like there should be a much simpler and elegant solution to this problem.
Any suggestions?

This happens because:

1. set /p automatically escapes all input from the user.

2. Command Prompt only runs each code block through one interpreter phase, so only the content of %input% is expanded.

My solution:


Seems to work fine.

Works perfect, can't believe I overlooked that use of call....