From: klee@unibwm.de   
      
   On 10.10.2020 17:44, Kenny McCormack wrote:   
      
   lon must be special in some way.   
   >>   
   >>Unless it's double-quoted, and it doesn't have any special meaning for the   
   >>current command, it's treated as a delimiter. It'll be basically same as   
   >>whitespace.   
   >   
   > Yep, that seems to be it.  The question then becomes: Why?   
   >   
   > There's nothing in any logical sense, nor anything in any documentation   
   > that implies or states that these characters should act as delimiters (as   
   > you quite accurately put it, as being equivalent to white space).   
   >   
   > I remember finding this out a long, long time ago, about the comma - that   
   > commas did strange things in batch file parameters.  I guess ; is the same   
   > thing.  Again, I have to ask: Why?   
      
   Just call your code to calculate the number of parameters with the   
   argument %path%, then you know why.   
      
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