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Hi Good evening. I would like to read two text files and set variables in the .bat file
One of the files is Name.txt and other is the lastName.txt

In Name.txt i have

John

Mike

Jonson

And in the lastName.txt i have

Smith

Michell

Brown

I try this

@echo on
set /a number=0
:begin
for /f "skip=%number%" %%G IN (name.txt) DO if not defined name set "name=%%G"
for /f "skip=%number%" %%H IN (lastName.txt) DO if not defined lsName set "lsName=%%H"

echo %name% %lsName%

set /a number = number +1
pause
goto begin



The idea is simple. Print on the prompt the name and the last name, reading the two data files and set together in different variables. Sorry, I believe the logic is simple, but I could not make it work.

What do you wish to do with the names? It may affect which way to extract the names.

Output

Just want to display on the screen with echo
Exactly that Squashman. Thank you very much. Sorry expose a simple logic problem, is that I am not very familiar with programming in bat.