Hi, I need a batch file that 1. gives me a menu with choices to: 1. print todays date 2. clear files 3. clear archive 4. get news 5. exit for choice 1 i want the output to be the name of the month not the numerical value so something like today is Tuesday march 15, 2009 for choice 2 I want it to ask the user what directory to clear and provide a prompt saying are you sure? before deleting files. for choice 3 I want to be able to clear the archive attribute from all files in a given directory. I want to be prompted for which directory to act on. for choice 4 I want it to display a secondary menu that selects from: www.cnn.com, www.weather.com, or www.msn.com. I want to launch the browser on the choice chosen. This is what I have written so far: echo off :menu cls if '%1%'=='' ( echo 1. print today's date ) if '%2%'=='' ( echo 2. clear files ) if '%3%'=='' ( echo 3. clear archive ) if '%4%'=='' ( echo 4. get news ) echo 5. Exit set choice= set /p choice="Please select a number ( 1-5 ) and press enter: " if '%choice%'=='' goto menu if '%choice%'=='1' goto first if '%choice%'=='2' goto second if '%choice%'=='3' goto third if '%choice%'=='4' goto forth if '%choice%'=='5' goto fith cls goto menu :first set choice= set /p choice= %date:~-10,-8% please type the 2 digit number seen: if '%choice%'=='01' echo today is January if '%choice%'=='02' echo today is Febuary if '%choice%'=='03' echo today is March if '%choice%'=='04' echo today is April if '%choice%'=='05' echo today is May if '%choice%'=='06' echo today is June if '%choice%'=='07' echo today is July if '%choice%'=='08' echo today is August if '%choice%'=='09' echo today is September if '%choice%'=='10' echo today is October if '%choice%'=='11' echo today is November if '%choice%'=='12' echo today is December date /t pause goto menu :second :third :forth echo 1. www.cnn.com echo 2. www. weather.com echo 3. www.msn.com echo 4. Exit to menu set choice= set /p choice="Select where to get your news from (1-3): " if '%choice%'=='' goto forth if '%choice%'=='1' start www.cnn.com if '%choice%'=='2' start www.weather.com if '%choice%'=='3' start www.msn.com if '%choice%'=='4' goto menu cls goto forth :fith set choice= set /p choice="Are you sure you want to exit? y/n: " if '%choice%'=='' goto fith if '%choice%'=='y' goto end if '%choice%'=='n' goto menu cls goto fith :end /pre> the date thing for section 1 doesn't work and i'm not really sure how to get it to same for section 2 and 3 if anyone has any idea how to do it it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

love2, Try this and let us know: Change these lines: :first set choice= set /p choice= %date:~-10,-8% please type the 2 digit number seen: if '%choice%'=='01' echo today is January to set choice= set choice=%date:~-10,-8% if "%choice%"=="01" echo today is January :and so on for other months.. that is to remove single quotes and replace it by double quotes. -- Holla.

ok but for the date section I dont want to be prompted to get the month name I would like it to just do it. If thats possible? Let me know if you know how to do that or the rest. Thanks!

love2, 1. Have you tried what I suggested? 2. Does it prompt for the month number? -- Holla.

ya I think I figured out the date thing I changed it to :first set month= % date:~-10,-8% for /f "eol=; tokens=%month% delims=," %%i in ("January,Febuary,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,October,November,December") do set month %%i && echo %%i this gives me the output in month so March instead of 03 I still need help on part 2 and 3 though if you have any ideas

love2, for part 2, set /p dir2clear=What dir? set /p Confirm=Are u sure to delete %dir2clear% if not exist %dir2clear% goto :NoDir cd %dir2clear% :well, you know the rest. :NoDir echo Dir %dir2clear% does not exist. For part 3, the above and use attrib command. type "attrib /?" to get help on attrib. -- Holla.

Ok thanks got everything working perfectly now!