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Variable from a file?
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Name: Mathieu Gendreau
Date: July 31, 2005 at 18:46:22 Pacific
Subject: Variable from a file?OS: Windows 98SECPU/Ram: not needed |
Comment: Hello everybody,
Let me explain my question, I have 2 batch file, the first one create a file with a value in it and the second need to set a variable using the value given in the file. set variable=<myvariable.txt didn't work. Sincerly yours,
Mathieu Gendreau
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Response Number 1
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Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: August 1, 2005 at 03:53:02 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hi, "set variable=<myvariable.txt didn't work" You're right; that won't work. Neither will this:
set /p variable=<myvariable.txt Try this: ::== my.bat
@echo off
echo set myvar=mystring > setMYvar.bat
setMYvar
::== M2
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
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