I am trying run a loop X amount of times, and prompt for a string each time and store it in a separate variable for each prompt. Here is what I have: @ECHO OFF SETLocal EnableDelayedExpansion SET /P Number= :LOOP set /A Count+=1 IF !Count! gtr !Number! GOTO :eof SET /P File!Count!=Name of File!Count!?- Goto LOOP It loops through and asks me for all the file names, but it doesn't store the values in the variables I want(file1, file2, etc.) I suspect that you can't set a variable name that contains a variable which leads me the real problem: I don't have a clue how to set a "variable" number of variables.

What happens when you try? Are the file variables empty? If so, it's because you're using SETLOCAL and GOTO :EOF

Oh! Yeah, your right. I was changing someone else's loop code for another purpose and I didn't realize what :eof did. So, now I get the variables set correctly. Which brings me to another thing I don't know how to do; run a command on all those variables. For simplicity, how would I ECHO each "File" variable that is created in the loop into a text file? @ECHO OFF SETLocal EnableDelayedExpansion SET /P Number= :LOOP set /A Count+=1 IF !Count! gtr !Number! GOTO :EndLoop SET /P File!Count!=Name of File!Video!?- Goto LOOP :EndLOOP

If you are not inside a block (e.g. a FOR loop or anything that involves surrounding multiple commands in parentheses) then the following should work: echo !File%Count%! (Note that the "%" expansion happens before the "!".) If you want to iterate over all variables from 1 to Number: for /l %%i in (1,1,!Number!) do ( echo !File%%n! )

Thanks a lot. That's pretty ironic. I tried %File!Count!% instead of !File%Count%! and the /l switch of FOR, but I guess I didn't do it right. Do you have to use %%i and %%n?

Sorry, that was a typo. I meant %%i both times, i.e. echo !File%%i!