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Redirecting text file to a variable?
Name: Darkshadeau Date: July 27, 2000 at 06:17:34 Pacific
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How do you redirect the contents of a text file to a variable in a batch file? Is it possible?
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: July 27, 2000 at 06:59:55 Pacific
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Have you tried looking at this DOS Batch Programming site that W0rm posted a while back?
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Response Number 2
Name: Darkshadeau Date: July 27, 2000 at 07:08:12 Pacific
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Thanks DoOMsdAY, I had lost that link.
-Darkshadeau
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Response Number 3
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: July 27, 2000 at 07:21:39 Pacific
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Hope it helps! It's a really great site (as you probably already know.) :)
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Response Number 4
Name: Darkshadeau Date: July 27, 2000 at 10:40:11 Pacific
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FYI: The answer to my question is:
:: result.bat @ECHO off ECHO. >> result1.dat DATE < result1.dat | find "):" > result1.bat ECHO set var=%%4> enter.bat FOR %%C IN (CALL DEL) DO %%C result1.bat DEL enter.bat :: %optional% DEL result1.dat
P.S. I found this link through the above mentioned DOS Batch Programming link provided by DoOMsdAY. Thanks again.
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Response Number 5
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: July 27, 2000 at 12:09:43 Pacific
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Well that was pretty straight-forward. ;) Thanks for posting the solution, Darkshadeau! :)
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Response Number 6
Name: W0rm Date: July 27, 2000 at 13:37:01 Pacific
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too bad you cant store a file thats big at all in a variable eh? 40000bytes would be entirely impossible, and even 128 bytes would be pushing it. - W0rm
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