Hi, I'm using a for loop in a command script to read lines from a file. I am then echoing each line as part of a sentence, to the screen. But some of the lines in the file contain special characters, so when I try to echo them to the screen, I get an error. For example, when I try to echo the string: J |\\| O N N |_ /\\ Y" < I get the error: '\\' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. But this is just a specific example; I don't always know which special characters there will be. Is there a way of echoing a special-character string read from a file, to the screen, without getting an error? Many Thanks, Jonny

Hi Jonny, No way I know of to echo special chars. I troed to set a var and echo the var. It didn't help. You can copy filename con > nul This is not "echoing" but depending on what you're trying to do may be an acceptable work-around. HTH M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.