the proplem is i can not seem to find any info on how to nest a 2nd for /f loop command to grab a 2nd set of information. mainly i want to grab the scopes IP and the scope name from a premade list in a txt file. while using a batch file with all the commands to add scopes in to dhcp. i have 99% of everything working great. here is my batch file. i am sure it is ugly but it was my 1st real try. it does almost everything right. id like to grab data from one txt file containing the scopes ips 192.168.1, 192.168.2 ect.. and to grab the scope names from another txt file containing scope1, scope2, ect. the below batch file will grab the scope ip addresses from a txt file. if i try to combine 2 for /f loops i get some stuff but it is never works the way i need it to. set w=.1 set x=.0 set z=.100 set y=.254 set serverscope=serverscope.txt FOR /f "tokens=*" %%M in (%serverscope%) do CALL :CHECK "%%M" GOTO :EOF :CHECK SET serverscope=%~1 SET serverscope=%serverscope: =% set dhcpserver=dhcpserver1 set ip=%serverscope% set scope=%ip%%x% set scopename=%name% set description=%username%_02/12/07 set iprange_exclude=%ip%%z% %ip%%y% set router=%ip%%w% set subnet=255.255.255.0 netsh dhcp server \\%dhcpserver% add scope %scope% %subnet% %scopename% %description% netsh dhcp server \\%dhcpserver% scope %scope% add iprange %iprange_exclude% netsh dhcp server \\%dhcpserver% scope %scope% add excluderange %iprange_exclude% netsh dhcp server \\%dhcpserver% scope %scope% set optionvalue 51 dword 2592000 netsh dhcp server \\%dhcpserver% scope %scope% set optionvalue 003 ipaddress %router% netsh dhcp server \\%dhcpserver% scope %scope% set state 1

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