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   Tom Lavedas to nathanw...@gmail.com   
   Re: Dynamic Setting of variable based on   
   15 Nov 12 06:09:16   
   
   From: tglbatch@verizon.net   
      
   On Thursday, November 15, 2012 7:46:01 AM UTC-5, nathanw...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Todd Thanks for the reply    
   >   
   > it is failing with a syntax error on the    
   >   
   > for %%B in ("%%A\*") do call :process "%%~A" "%%~B"    
   >   
   > not sure why only difference is the directory name Any ideas?    
   > Thanks   
      
   That's not enough information to make even an educated guess.  Does it throw   
   the error on the first iteration or a later one?  Try putting a pause (or an   
   exit and run it with cmd /c batchname.bat) at the end of the subroutine.  Then   
   capture (copy) the    
   first iteration of the procedure to paste into a posting to show us what is   
   happening on your machine.     
      
   I say that because Todd's routine works fine on my Win7 equipped machine and I   
   can't think of a condition to make it fail.  There is something different in   
   you situation that we need to see to be able to troubleshoot this problem.   
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