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I've narrowed it down to this question:

"In a dos prompt batch input file, how do you input a string that has a space?"

Eg (simplied to illustrate the point):

Say you have a file input.txt

input.txt has the following lines

"telephone"
"caterpillar"
"boeing airplane"

If you were to run the following batch:

for /f %%i in (input.txt) do (
@echo %%i
)

You will get the following :

"telephone"
"caterpillar"
"boeing

Where's the " airplane"?? It doesn't get picked up by echo!

However if you typed in dos prompt echo "boeing airplane" it would output:

boeing airplane

aieee~

maybe underscore? its been about 4 years since i dealt with dos

Underscore makes an underscore

So boeing_airplane becomes boeing_airplane, not boeing airplane.

;D

This is not pressing (I'm writing a script to simplify adding global groups to a user account) but it would simplify my life. Not sure if it would be more efficient unless I were doing multiple identical accounts, but all the same...

Could you print the two tokens on the same line? And wtf are you doing with dos anyway?

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Originally Posted by NeoTifa

Could you print the two tokens on the same line? And wtf are you doing with dos anyway?

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It's for work. I'm not sure what you mean by the first sentence ;o

Try this code, I'm not that flash with batch scripting in Windows but it worked for me.

Code:

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for /f "delims=[]" %%i in (input.txt) do (
@echo %%i
)

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That did it, but I'm not sure what that means though. Did you specify something or nothing in the delimiter?

The default delimiter value for the windows shell is "<tab><space>", so the for loop iterates over every value that it can find which is delimited by one of these two characters. By changing the delimiter either to a character you know will never be used or to nothing at all (this is what I did; [] represents a set of no characters) you can force the script to ignore spaces.