Reading text from to variable

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Name: Zangor
Date: March 10, 2005 at 04:51:54 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable
OS: Xp
CPU/Ram: 2800 512mb ram

Comment:

I want to read a textfile and put the content to variable.
/This was the word of Zangor

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Response Number 1

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: March 10, 2005 at 05:03:37 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable

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in DOS or XP?
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Response Number 2

Name: Zangor
Date: March 10, 2005 at 05:48:05 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable

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In a bat-file in Dos
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Response Number 3

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: March 10, 2005 at 06:36:40 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable

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Is the text file just one line?
What size is the file?
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Response Number 4

Name: Zangor
Date: March 10, 2005 at 08:54:15 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable

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the text file is more than one line and i want to get i all out to diferent variables
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Response Number 5

Name: jboy
Date: March 10, 2005 at 09:04:26 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable

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"in DOS or XP?" means: Are you running DOS, the Operating System, or are you employing the Command Prompt from within WinXP?

Give me ambiguity or give me something else

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Response Number 6

Name: Zangor
Date: March 10, 2005 at 09:06:03 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable

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I'm running Xp Command Prompt
/This was the word of Zangor

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Response Number 7

Name: jboy
Date: March 10, 2005 at 09:19:28 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable

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I imagine you must have breezed right past this message at the top of the forum:
This forum is for all Standalone versions of DOS, not the "DOS" prompt contained inside later versions of Windows.
As well, there is a somewhat different command set contained in the XP emulation, so what works in true DOS may not work under XP's 'extended DOS', or there may be better options unique to that environment
Give me ambiguity or give me something else

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Response Number 8

Name: dtech10
Date: March 12, 2005 at 08:51:07 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable

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Hi
Is it ok to help Zanger here even if is is the wrong forum or is this frowned upon.
Thanks DTech10

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Response Number 9

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: March 12, 2005 at 08:54:44 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable

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Hi dtech10,
Doesn't bother me.
I'd always rather help than bitch somebody out.
A couple guys who repond here are on the verge of a mental breakdown.
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Response Number 10

Name: jboy
Date: March 12, 2005 at 11:16:31 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable

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If you can help, that's fine. It is in the poster's best interest to specify just what version of DOS (or "DOS") pertains to the actual question, as the answers may well be different. As you can tell from this post, even asking point blank wasn't enough.
It's also in the poster's best interest to choose the appropriate forum. If someone posted a Linux or Mac question here, what would be the response? Would someone try and answer it, or would reposting in a more relevant forum be suggested?
I just find it completely weird that folks running Windows post in the DOS forum - - seems like a kind of mental disconnect
Give me ambiguity or give me something else

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Response Number 11

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: March 12, 2005 at 11:37:33 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable

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Hi Zanger,
This should work with lines containing up to 9 'words'.
::==
set varNUM=0
for /f "tokens=*" %%T in (some.txt) do call :varSET %%T
goto :eof
:VarSET
set /a varNUM=%varNUM%+1
set MYvar%varNUM%=%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
::==
HTH
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Response Number 12

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: March 28, 2005 at 07:57:27 Pacific
Subject: Reading text from to variable

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Once again, as in the Zen tradition, a thunderous silence.

M2
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

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