Here is the scenario set a=Test set /P input=Please Enter a letter: If the user enters "a" how can I associate "a" variable with input variable essentially I would like to do something like this: echo %%input%% and would expect to get "Test" which is the value of "a" variable Is this possible and how would I go about doing it. Thank you

set a=Test set /P input=Please Enter a letter: set a=%input% EDIT: I should have read more carefully. I don't think this is what you mean.

Good question. I think we'll have to wait for IVO on this one. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

What, like: SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION set a=Test set /P input=Please Enter a letter: SET input=!%input%!

Try: set a=test set input=a call echo %%input%% As you can see you can use commands after the call as per normal e.g. call set b=%%input%% should set %b% to test. [edit] Another thing I forgot to mention is if you set layer=input you could do the following to echo test: call call echo %%%layer%%%

Thank you everyone Razor's suggestion worked very well. For some reason call did not work for me as per Judago's suggestion. Thank you again all for your help. dude04

For some reason call did not work for me as per Judago's suggestion. Are you using setlocal enabledelayedexpansion? Using call didn't seem to work for me either when I enabled it(learn something new every day). Using Razor2.3's suggestion of using !%input%! when setlocal enabledelayedexpansion is in force is the right one. When not using delayedexpansion, call seems to work fine(at least for me).