Hey,

I'm relatively new to batch file programing and I am tearing my hair out over this.

I want to be able to set the results of a command as a variable. For example be able to have the results of VER (Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]) as %VER%.
The closest I can get is the following:

VER > ver.txt
FOR /F "TOKENS=*" %%A IN ('TYPE ver.txt') DO (
SET VER=%%A
)

Any help for a simpler method would be much appreciated :)

for /F "tokens=* " %%i in ('ver') do (
set VER=%%i
)

Thank you just what I was looking for! :)

Or this; shorter, but not necessisarily better:

ver>#
set /p ver=<#

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

Thanks for that too, works really well :D