Dear friends, I´m having trouble assigning a env variable with a line from a text file. Does anyone could give me some light? I´d really appreciate. Thanks in advance, Alberto

need to know which env variable. You can write a batch file in notepad by just naming the file whatever.bat and including the lines to set the environment variable of your choice. i.e. @echo off *//will not display each line input set path = %path%;c:\example this would add c:\example to your path statement.

Thank you Sancho. Let me try to explain better my problem. I´d like to read a text file that already exists and set up a variable, e.g. ALBERTO with the content of its first line. It{s a part of a bigger problem and it´s the missing part of it. Thank you once more, Alberto

See the batchfile below: the user variables DATUM and TIJD will be set to parts of the first (and only) line of the %username% file: echo off rem GETDATETIME date /t>%USERNAME% for /F "tokens=2" %%i in (%USERNAME%) do ( echo %%i > %USERNAME% ) rem Set the char after delims to the DateSeperator (see ControlPanel) for /f "tokens=1,2,3 delims=/" %%i in (%USERNAME%) do ( set DATUM=%%i%%j%%k ) time /t>%USERNAME% for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=:" %%t in (%USERNAME%) do @set TIJD=%%t:%%u del %USERNAME%