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   foxidrive to oldyork90@yahoo.com   
   Re: input a sentance/comment   
   19 May 14 04:48:14   
   
   From: foxidrive@server.invalid   
      
   On 19/05/2014 04:35, oldyork90@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >   
   > I understand that you quote input to join space delimited input.   
   >   
   > batch.cmd "this is one arg" second third   
   >   
   > Quoting also works with   
   >   
   > set /p ans=Enter   
   >   
   > Is there any way using set /p to collect all the args without asking the   
   > user to quote?   
   >   
   > At the command line I could do this inside the file,  set all_ans=%1 %2 ...   
   > but with set there are no positionals, %1.... %n are empty.   
      
      
   You can write code to extract the terms - but knowing exactly what terms can   
   be used and in which   
   order they can appear, is information that you have to provide.   
      
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