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|    Herbert Kleebauer to Tom Del Rosso    |
|    Re: Copy all files into a format I can u    |
|    26 Mar 19 20:15:30    |
      From: klee@unibwm.de              On 26.03.2019 02:30, Tom Del Rosso wrote:                     > For clarity, and for the record, lets parse that out.       >       > The first CALL sees (for the letter b for example):       > call set text=%%%%text:b=%%u[b]%%%%%%       >       > Then I'm not completely sure what the next CALL sees.              for %%i in (A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do set       u[%%i]=%%i              This "for" loop sets a pseudo array:              u[A]=A       u[B]=B       u[C]=C       :       :              for %%i in (a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x v z) do call call       set text=%%%%text:%%i=%%u[%%i]%%%%%%              Each "call" evaluates the remaining line (%% is replaced by % and       variables are replaced by their value).              After the first call we get (for the letter b):              call set text=%%text:b=%u[b]%%%              After the second call:              set text=%text:b=B%              and if this is executed, every "b" is replaced by a "B"       in the variable "text".              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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