Multiline variable into a file

[Nico]

Hello.
I have something that puts in a variable a changelog.
It looks like that :

# Amélioration
- [STR-275] Empecher de dumper les bases/tables vers le serveur source
# Bogue
- [STR-143] Impossible d'imprimer ou éditer le détail des contenants en Pilote
- [STR-277] Indication de la Cale d'une Ké7 dans l'écran Ajustement
- [STR-280] Le co_tranche vide n'est jamais détecté et provoque un plnateg de requete INSERT INTO DEPOTS_FACT
- [STR-282] S24 F7 GENERATION AUTOMATIQUE DES NOMS DE PRODUITS INCORRECT POUR MD7 PROST SECTORIELLE
- [STR-55] Il manque des données à l'affichage de 'Gérer les lots' / modifs params
- [STR-283] IMPOSSIBLE DE CREER UN EXPEDITEUR
- [STR-274] Impossible de créer un DDG WT lorsque le dépôt comporte trop de batchs
- [STR-264] Afficher bordereau - colonne batch non valorisée

It does it progammaticaly, and I want to write this into a file. The problem with

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echo %variable%>file.txt

is that it sends me this "echo ("# Am‚lioration" and never save it in file.txt.
I googled for a day now without success, and I stumble upon this forum where it seems possible to find an answer.
I can't manually interact with the variable as it is automatically generated.

Please help me !
Thanks in advance.

[jeb]

Hi Nico,

simple by using delayed expansion.

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setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
echo !variable! >file

The cause for your is, that a linefeed stops the parser in an early phase.
But with delayed expansion the expansion is done after this phase.

How does the Windows Command Interpreter (CMD.EXE) parse scripts?

jeb

[Squashman]

Just want to make sure you know that the > symbol will overwrite the file whereas >> will append to the file.

[Nico]

Well, it doesn't work but I found why.
It appears that the software I use to generate %variable% replace directly the %variable% in the command batch instead of assigning the value to %variable% and then using it.
It can't work...
Thanks anyway!