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I reversed Al's idea doing the count in a called sub using the %*
Since the shift is in a sub it can be done in main again.
And with a for /L its quite straight forward.

@echo off & setlocal enableextensions
call :ArgCount %*
echo The number of parameters is %ArgC%
for /L %%A in (1,1,%ArgC%) do (echo/Arg%%A:%1 & shift)
endlocal & goto :EOF
:ArgCount
set /a ArgC=0
:_ArgCLoop
  if [%1]==[] goto :EOF
  set /a ArgC+=1
  shift & goto _ArgCLoop

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