Solved making abatch file where i can save input

@echo off set /p in="your input? " >>file.txt echo %in% Tony

i want to be able to open it like a file in a menu after i press enter while in the batch file sort of like this as the menu :// title // cls echo. echo 1) saved data 1 echo 2) saved data 2 echo. set /p menu="Option:" if %menu%==1 goto :(open saved data 1 in batch file) if %menu%==2 goto :(open saved data 2 in batch file)

You can read from a file with a for /f loop if %menu%==1 ( for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ("file1.txt") do set saved_data=%%i ) If you mean actually opening the file you can use something like this: if %menu%==1 ( start file1.txt ) Tony

could someone please redo this so i can save data and then see taht data / text in the same batch file. :// title // cls echo. set /p in="> " >>file1.txt echo %in% :open data title test cls echo. echo 1) open file 1 echo. set /p menu="Option:" if %menu%==1 ( for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ("file1.txt") do set saved_data=%%i )

There seems to be quite a bit of ambiguity in this setup. First, is there only one line, or multiple lines, in these files? The "set /p" only allows one line, so I will go with that assumption (1 line per file). Second, what do you want to do (if anything) besides display the data? Do you want to allow modification (perhaps in a "sub-menu" option). Oh well, here's one way that might serve: ::===== begin batch snippet :open data title test :: this is the upper limit, set as var. to allow for changes. set last=2 set op=save to :gather data set /p data=Enter your data: :store data call :menu >file%menu%.txt echo %data% :open data set op=open call :menu if not exist file%menu% goto :error for /f "tokens=*" %%i in (file%menu%.txt) do set saved_data=%%i echo data from file%menu%: echo %saved_data% goto :eof :menu cls echo. for /L %%i in (1,1,%last%) do echo %%i) %op% file %%i echo. set /p menu="Option:" ::==== end batch Although this doesn't do very much. You might also want to enforce the restriction on 1 to %last%, and not greater or less than with another for-loop: for /L %%i in (1,1,%last%) do if %menu% equ %%i goto :ok goto :error :ok (proceed with file-open and read operation) but I don't know the background, so i just left that out to keep things simpler.

I still don't get it i just need something simple that i can have 2 menus. 1 to select new data and saved data. The 2nd is a list of saved data (open 2nd menu using the first menu.