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Reading a text file with a .bat

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Name: cmdrfred
Date: March 28, 2009 at 00:11:22 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Subcategory: Batch
Comment:

Here is what I want to do is it possible, I have a number of lists and they each have 50 lines, I want to set each line of this list as a variable.

so for example:
SET inv01 = line 1 from text file
SET inv02 = line 2 from text file
and so on up to 50.

The rest of the program works if I set the values up manually, I'm wondering if I can automate this process. Any Idea's Ive looked around but cant seem to find an answer to this.



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Response Number 1
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: March 28, 2009 at 00:45:03 Pacific
Reply:

@echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion

set N=

for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in (myfile) do (
set /a N+=1
set var!N!=%%a
)

set v


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Response Number 2
Name: cmdrfred
Date: March 28, 2009 at 05:13:06 Pacific
Reply:

Works perfect thanks alot :)


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Response Number 3
Name: lee123abc
Date: March 28, 2009 at 08:36:47 Pacific
Reply:

M2 - Why the 'set v' ?


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Response Number 4
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: March 29, 2009 at 00:03:00 Pacific
Reply:

lee, just to 'show what was done'


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