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> Does anyone know how to detect a null as variable input in a batch file?
> Specifically:
> 
> foo %1   --how do I detect case where %1 is omitted, thus avoiding
> 	   an error?  I've tried 'if %1=='':goto xx' as well as
> ==' '

Hmmm ... I should probably try this out first, but my MS-DOS machine is
unavailable right now.  I *think* this will do what you want:

                   if .%1 == . goto xx

Note the "dots".  Also, I pretty sure that this will work too:

		   if "%1" == "" goto xx

/kim

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