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Batch File limiting characters
Name: DarkGreen16 Date: September 2, 2004 at 00:25:29 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: N/A
Comment:
Hey, Im trying to limit the amount of characters someone is allowed to use to 1.
This is what im working with
SET Choice= SET /P Choice=What would you like to do?: IF NOT '%Choice%'=='' SET Choice=%Choice:~0,1%
so basically what would I have to add to that to make it so you can only input one character
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