Help using multiple variables

[chr15b]

Hi, wonder if you could help me with something that should be quite simple.

I'm trying to use the contents of variables within other variables but its not doing what i want

as an example:

Set Client1=fred
Set Client2=joe

SET CLIx=0

SET /A CLIx=%CLIx%+1
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What command would i need to use to echo Fred then Joe?

Echo Client%CLIx% outputs "Client1"

Thanks in advance
Chris

[dbenham]

Relatively slow way:

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call echo %%Client%CLIx%%%

Fast way under normal circumstances using delayed expansion

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setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
echo !Client%CLIx%!

Fast way if %CLIx% does not have desired value (if it was set within a parenthesized code block and you are still in the same code block)

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for /f %%N in ("!CLIx!") do echo !Client%%N!

For more info about delayed expansion, type HELP SET from the command line and read the section that starts with "Finally, support for delayed environment variable expansion..."

Dave Benham

[chr15b]

Fantastic, will have a play... thanks very much