I have an file which may be empy , I try to read the file and when the file is empty it says "Echo is off" . Y does this happen ? and can we get a space or null out of this so that it would be easy fr me to compare'

Hi. > I have an file which may be empy , I try to read the file How do you read it? > and when the file is empty it says "Echo is off" . It's not the empty file that says that. It's the echo command. > Y does this happen ? I presume that you read each line of the file (or maybe just the first line) into a variable, and then you echo it like this: echo %line% If line is not defined (or if it is defined to be one or more spaces or tabs) then the above command is seen as just this: echo And the echo command on its own just tells you whether you have echo set to on or off. To fix this, use: if defined line echo.%line% So, if line is undefined, nothing happens. If line is just spaces/tabs, it prints a blank line. If it contains printable characters, it prints them. The dot (.) after echo is treated as a delimiter and not printed. > and can we get a space or null out of this so that it would be easy fr me to compare' Sorry, can you rephrase. Space or null out of what? Compare with what?