hi there I need a way to separate a string inputed by user. Like this: teste.bat abcde I need to separate each character from the string and assign it to a variable, since i need to use those characters separatly. how can i do this? thanks for any help vb

Hi, vascobrito With DOS 5 internals only, I can see no way. There are a few small utilities that will help. How long a user string do you need to process? Mechanix

Well, i found a way that requires qbasic. But i was in fact trying to do it only with dos. The user input's a five digit number, that i would have to increment this number by one. ex. user input : 20010 i will get a file called m20010.txt with ftp, and then i need to get the next one, so the idea is to increment that number to 20011, and the get the m20011.txt file. I can increment the number but the method requires to separate each digit and increment each digit if necessary. what i don't know is how to to separate 20010 in "2 0 0 1 0" to. I still would prefer to do it using only dos. thanks vb