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|    Herbert Kleebauer to Anton Shepelev    |
|    Re: Turing-competeness of the batch lang    |
|    26 Aug 19 19:58:12    |
      From: klee@unibwm.de              On 26.08.2019 18:54, Anton Shepelev wrote:       > Herbert Kleebauer:                     > Why does the following script return 5 instead of 6?       >       > @echo off       > SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION       > SET S=0;       > for /L %%i IN (1,1,3) DO SET /A S=!S!+%%i & echo Summing: %%i       > echo Result: %S%              Because you should have used:              @echo off       SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION       SET S=0       for /L %%i IN (1,1,3) DO SET /A S=!S!+%%i & echo Summing: %%i       echo Result: %S%                            > I mean in situation similar to the above. For exam-       > ple, how to set a variable to a comma-separated list       > of files in a directory?              echo a>a.txt       echo b>b.txt       echo c>c.txt       set list=       for %%i in (*.txt) do call set list=%%list%%,%%i       echo %list%              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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