String and variable manupulation

[erikr...@gmail.com]

Hello

I am trying to combine the result of two variables , to a new
variable.
This new variable should be set to false and and the if statement
should do the rest.

@ECHO OFF
::ECHO ON
SET BLABEL7=0432a_04
SET TYPE=_W32BP

ECHO %BLABEL7%
ECHO %TYPE%
ECHO.%BLABEL7%%TYPE%

SET %BLABEL7%%TYPE%=FALSE

ECHO %BLABEL7%
ECHO %TYPE%
ECHO %BLABEL7%%TYPE%

IF ==FALSE ECHO."THIS IS FALSE"
ECHO."THIS IS THE end"

[Tom Lavedas]

I call that 'indirection' and it's tricky in batch. Here is one
way ...

%comspec% /c IF '%%%BLABEL7%%TYPE%%%'=='FALSE' ECHO."THIS IS FALSE"

Watch out for those percent signs ;-)

Unfortunately, that doesn't help if you want to use it for branching.
In that case, you might want something like this ...

%COMSPEC% /C echo.%%%BLABEL7%%TYPE%%% | find /i "false" > nul
if %errorlevel% EQU 0 goto :False
goto NotFalse
:False
echo."THIS IS FALSE"
:NotFalse

ECHO."THIS IS THE end"

In XP the %COMSPEC% /C can be replaced with a simple CALL. However,
in Win2K (and earlier), that trick doesn't work.

Tom Lavedas
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[billious]

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This solution developed using XP
It may work for NT4/2K

----- batch begins -------
[1]@ECHO OFF
[2]::ECHO ON
[3]SET BLABEL7=0432a_04
[4]SET TYPE=_W32BP
[5]
[6]ECHO %BLABEL7%
[7]ECHO %TYPE%
[8]ECHO.%BLABEL7%%TYPE%
[9]
[10]SET %BLABEL7%%TYPE%=FALSE
[11]
[12]ECHO %BLABEL7%
[13]ECHO %TYPE%
[14]ECHO %BLABEL7%%TYPE%
[15]
[16]for /f "tokens=1*delims==" %%i in ( ' set %BLABEL7%%TYPE% ' ) do set
result=%%j
[17]
[18]IF %result%==FALSE ECHO."THIS IS FALSE"
[19]ECHO."THIS IS THE end"
------ batch ends --------

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