I am trying to echo one at a time the following txt file 192.168.0.169 192.168.0.173 192.168.0.139 however the batch file I have made, displays them all at once Set n= Set _InputFile=list.txt For /F "tokens=*" %%I IN (%_InputFile%) DO ( Set /a n=1 Set _blah!n!=%%I Echo %%I ) Is there anyway to display one at a time? Thanks

isn't it already diplaying one line at a time??? add this line inside the for loop to understand: ping localhost>nul

Thanks for your quick response but unfortunately it displays them all at once is there anyway to break them up? thanks

Set /a n+=1 ??? <- Did you forget your plus sign(or whatever operator your using)? "is there anyway to break them up?" echo. This will echo an empty line.

"isn't it already diplaying one line at a time???" I'm gladf it's not just me. As posted it sure will put out 1 line at a time. NOTE: the setting of n and _blah!n! is not doing anything. I wonder what was intended. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

the line is normally set /a n+=1 I was just mucking around with the code and forgot to change it back. Thanks for all of your responses but I don't think I made my question clear. after that code is executed I can use the vars %_blah1% to %_blah3%. Is the any way to have it in a loop so I don't have to set the number every time? eg. :start if %_blah!n!%=="" goto EOF Do somthing set n=n+1 goto start

Since you have a variable with n variables inside why not use a for /l loop. for /l %%a in (1 1 !n!) do echo !_blah%%a! Unfortunately the is no easy way to do something similar to create the variables with out mucking around.