Or refresh switches in Internet Explorer? I don't think that the computer I'll be using this on has Firefox. Babaloomba

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I don't think there are any command-line switches to get an existing instance, or existing window, of Internet Explorer to refresh. However, it is possible to send DDE commands to Internet Explorer to get it to do so. I know it can be done because, when you are looking at a web site, and you open Windows Explorer and go Tools -> Folder Options -> View -> Apply to All Folders, this will make all instances of Internet Explorer refresh. However, I don't know the DDE commands required to do this.

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Well I tried using the double quotes, instead of letting me type only one word, it lets me type only two. Not wanting to deal with it, I just moved the IF statement to a separate file specifically for clearing the document. Now it works perfectly. Maybe the "delayed expansion" will work. I didn't try it, because I had never heard of it. Would someone explain it for me? (I'm relatively new to batch.) klint, thanks for the tip about the DDE, I'll check it out. Babaloomba

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Let me explain about delayed expansion. First, let's look at the context of the problem. In your original code, you had: IF '%var%' == 'cls' GOTO clear The problem with that is that the single quote is not treated as anything special. It's just another character. You might as well have written: IF a%var%a == aclsa GOTO clear Obviously, your intention was to get the IF statement to compare two strings. Normally, the IF statement can compare two words, so you can write this: IF %var% == cls GOTO clear This will work only if %var% contains a single word. The % percent-sign operator causes the variable to be replaced by its value before the whole line is parsed. So if var contains the word Fred, the above line will first be expanded to this: IF Fred == cls GOTO clear which is perfectly good syntax. It compares two words, they are not equal so it doesn't goto clear. Now if var contained the phrase "two words" (without the quotes), the above would become: IF two words == cls GOTO clear This is a syntax error because after IF the command processor expects to see a word followed by ==. To fix this, you can use double quotes, which makes the parser treat the phrase as a single word: IF "%var%" == "cls" GOTO clear which expands to IF "two words" == "cls" GOTO clear which again is perfectly valid syntax. What if var contained the string between the parentheses here: (two" == "words) ? Now this: IF "%var%" == "cls" GOTO clear expands to: IF "two" == "words" == "cls" GOTO clear which is a syntax error because it expects a valid command in place of the second ==. What can we do here? The answer: use delayed expansion. To use delayed expansion, you first have to enable it at the start of your batch file with this command: setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion Now, you can use !var! instead of %var%. The difference is that the variable expansion is done after parsing, not before. So our solution to this problem is the following: IF !var! == cls GOTO clear The syntax is valid, because it is checked before !var! is expanded. var can in fact contain anything you wish. It can contain multiple words separated by spaces, or commas, or it can contain any punctuation character you like (including quotes.) Whatever it contains, it will be compared with the word cls with the results you expect. If the right-hand side contains multiple words, you need to use quotes: IF "!var!" == "multiple words" GOTO clear Or you can do this: SET test=multiple words IF !var! == !test! GOTO clear I hope this makes sense. Good luck!

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Carts: Or refresh switches in Internet Explorer? VBScript can control it. The downside is said script must be the one to open IE. QnD example follows: Set ie = WScript.CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application", "IE_") With ie .Visible = True .Navigate "whatever" On Error Resume Next 'Avoids an error message when we close IE While True Do While .Busy WScript.Sleep 100 Loop WScript.Sleep 600000 .Refresh Wend End With

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Hi klint, Good points to ponder. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

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Thank you klint. This will help a lot. There's only thing I don't understand still. Why, when I had double quotes, it only let me type two words? Babaloomba

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Babaloomba, "Why, when I had double quotes, it only let me type two words?" I don't know. What happened if you wrote one or three words instead?

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