Is there an easy way to remove trailing space characters from the contents of a variable? I want to do it using straight DOS commands. The number of trailing spaces will vary but the variable will always end with "WGM". Eg: "92CS WGM______" becomes "92CS WGM" Where _ is a space.

I'm not sure how to do this in just DOS, so you may want to ask this question in the DOS forum. However, if you want to write a very small block of code... most languages have a Trim() that will do just what you need. LTrim(" helloworld") = "helloworld" RTrim("helloworld ") = "helloworld" Trim(" helloworld ") = "helloworld" IR

If you are still interested, the following sample batch does what you want: --- @Echo Off Set MyVar=AA AAAA Echo MyVar=[%MyVar%] Call :TRIM %MyVar% Echo MyVar=[%MyVar%] Set MyVar= GoTo :EOF :TRIM Set MyVar=%* GoTo :EOF ----- where the initial setting of MyVar ends with trailing balnks that are removed by the internal subroutine :TRIM (that is all you need to get your goal). The :EOF label must not be declared explicitly as it is the standard return point in NT-kernel based scripts.