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hey all,

I've forgotten hoe to pull the fist line of a txt file into a variable. I thought it was..

set var=&LT;
but it doesn't work!!

All i'm trying to capture is a single WORD, so it should be NICE and easy.

(ALSO I've lost all my old batch files so can't look up whats I've done before.)

Cheers in advanceQuote from: blastman on JUNE 14, 2008, 10:46:25 AM

hey all,

I've forgotten hoe to pull the fist line of a txt file into a variable. I thought it was..

set var=<<C:\test.txt

but it doesn't work!!

Code: [Select]set /p var=<myfile.txt
arh,


/p - thats what I needed.

Cheers boss.


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