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Article #1056Passing delimiters to a batch file
From: Lawrence D. Sher
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 1990 12:41
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 1990 12:41
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I want to be able to call a batch file with arguments that contain
commas. This over-ambitious goal has led me to discover that DOS uses
both spaces and commas (and any contiguous collection thereof) as
delimiters between arguments.
Thus, if test.bat is
echo %1
echo %2
then at the DOS prompt
test 3,4 (or test 3 4 or test 3, 4)
produces
3
4
That means that commas cannot be passed in as part of the arguments
unless they are specially sheltered or "escaped" somehow. What I'd like
to do is have
test "foo(3,4)" 5
echo
foo(3,4)
5
but of course it echoes
"foo(3
4)"
I can't find any way of doing this. Is there any way?
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