Hi, Am working on a bat file to read lines out of a file and pass them to call1.bat: FOR /F "delims=" %%a in (iplist.log) DO call call1.bat %%a call1.bat is seeing %%a as %a - rather then as the line of text read from iplist and being passed to it. Any suggestions on how I can get past this? Would be very much appreciated, Thanks

Hi Steve, call1 needs to act on %1 just as it would with a command line parameter. Your: call call1.bat %%a is correct. HTH M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

it does not work though :( My script is supposed to read lines out of the log file - which works fine, but when passed to another bat file ie. call1.bat - this sees %1 as %a, NOT the line of text its read from the log file.

Hi Steve, I have no idea why you're getting that. I tried this: ::** FOR /F %%a in (iplist.log) DO call :1 %%a goto :eof :1 echo %1 pause ::** Note that with NT you can CALL a label like a separate BAT. In the script above I don't get %a ; I get the value. BUT, I only get the first "word" of each line. I get complete lines with this: ::** @echo off FOR /F "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (iplist.log) DO call :1 %%a goto :eof :1 echo %* pause ::** M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2, Your right it works - my mistake! I was using: echo %aa instead of: echo %1 Thank you very much for all your help :)

Hi Steve, Cool M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.