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reading body of text from batch
Name: francoom Date: May 12, 2009 at 05:15:53 Pacific OS: Windows XP Subcategory: Batch
Comment:
I have a file named "test.txt" and I would like to get the content of test.txt in a batch file.
The content of test.txt is: abcdefg hijklmnop qrstuvwxyz
I have this on the batch file:
pffile=test.txt cls binary.exe %pffile%
Where binary.exe is an executable file. My problem is that it interprets it as binary.exe test.txt
What I want is to interpret it as: binary.exe "abcdefghijhklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
Name: Valerie (by Garibaldi) Date: May 12, 2009 at 16:25:46 Pacific
Reply:
One way - untested:
:: Code begins...
@echo off
cls
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "delims=" %%1 in (test.txt) do (
set pffile=!pffile!%%1
)
set pffile="%pffile%"
binary.exe %pffile%
:: Code ends...
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Response Number 2
Name: francoom Date: May 12, 2009 at 20:21:53 Pacific
Reply:
IT WORKED!!!
Thank you so much Gari!!! Your post is greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks! :)
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Response Number 3
Name: Valerie (by Garibaldi) Date: May 13, 2009 at 00:47:48 Pacific
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