i am using dos on a win 98 machine. i have a bat file that will store information in a readme.txt file. it will store 1 word on the first line of this file, and 1 word on the second. so inside the file, it looks like this: test data from a second, different bat file, i want to be able to pull each of these two words into seperate variables. where 'myvar1' contains 'test' and 'myvar2' contains 'data'. i am greatful for any help thanks

This should work: ===== BATCH SCRIPT BEGIN ===== @echo off type README.TXT> %TEMP%.\T1.BAT echo e100'SeT %%1='> %TEMP%.\T2.BAT for %%? in (rcx 7 w q) do echo %%?>> %TEMP%.\T2.BAT type nul> %TEMP%.\T3.BAT DEBUG %TEMP%.\T3.BAT < %TEMP%.\T2.BAT > nul type %TEMP%.\T1.BAT>> %TEMP%.\T3.BAT FIND "SeT %%1=" < %TEMP%.\T3.BAT > %TEMP%.\T1.BAT call %TEMP%.\T1.BAT myvar1 FIND/v "SeT %%1=" < %TEMP%.\T3.BAT > %TEMP%.\T1.BAT DEBUG %TEMP%.\T3.BAT < %TEMP%.\T2.BAT > nul type %TEMP%.\T1.BAT>> %TEMP%.\T3.BAT FIND "SeT %%1=" < %TEMP%.\T3.BAT > %TEMP%.\T1.BAT call %TEMP%.\T1.BAT myvar2 for %%? in (1 2 3) do del %TEMP%.\T%%?.BAT ===== BATCH SCRIPT END ===== Watch out for line wrapping! Does the script look weird? Yes. Does the script work? Yes. -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br