i have a PROGRAMS that saves it's information as editable files and i want to know how to output info to a txt file repeatably.one of the tasks i am trying to do is to output
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Planet
Name "test part"
Radius 0.25
Mass 0
Position %corrx%,%corry%,%corrz%
Velocity 0,0,0
Locked 0
HasRings 0
Orientation 1,1,6
Color 255,0,0
LightSource 0

to the end of a save file.i want the values of %corrx%,%corry% and %corrz% to go up by a certain amount each TIME it loops until they reach a certain VALUE.they only problem is that i GET "ECHO IS OFF." on blank lines (which i need between each planet) and that the indents of some of the lines are tabs.BTW can you give me a few tips as to how to set up my own reapt output batch files because i have a few other programs that save stuff to editable files as wellFor the blank lines try this(use a period right after echo for a good refrence line):
Code: [Select]echo. >> output.txtTabs aren't possible in Batch so multiple spaces will have to be used:
Code: [Select]echo.     Name     "test part">>output.txt
I'll try to whip up a script for it


Hope this helps
,Nick(macdad-)

mac
here i used tabs

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echo.1 test
echo.Test sdasd
echo.qwerty1 1
pause
output

1       test
Test    sdasd
qwerty1 1
Press any key to continue . . .Ehh..I THINK its probably just me, the tabs dont work well but oh well.i can now get it to come out half right but i cant figure out how to get it to loop a certain amount of timesThis is what I have so far:
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echo.Planet Catalog > output.txt
for %%a in (Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto) do (
 echo. >> output.txt
 echo.Planet >> output.txt
 echo. Name "%%a" >> output.txt
 if %%a equ Mercury echo. Radius     9 >> output.txt
 if %%a equ Venus echo. Radius     2 >> output.txt
 if %%a equ Earth echo. Radius     5 >> output.txt
 if %%a equ Mars echo. Radius     456 >> output.txt
 if %%a equ Jupiter echo. Radius     4 >> output.txt
 if %%a equ Uranus echo. Radius     45 >> output.txt
 if %%a equ Neptune echo. Radius     4 >> output.txt
 if %%a equ Pluto echo. Radius     5 >> output.txt
)
echo done
pause
The radius numbers are just examples, and the Coordinate Loop for each planet's coordinates is going to have to be done one by one.

,Nick(macdad-) Quote

i want the values of %corrx%,%corry% and %corrz% to go up by a certain amount each time it loops until they reach a certain value