SET command syntax

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obones

Hi all

Can anyone tell me the result of running those three lines in an MS-DOS
window?

set MYVAR="hello"
set MYVAR=%MYVAR:"=%
echo %MYVAR%

Under windows XP, it returns hello without the double quotes, but I want
to be sure this would also work under other versions of Windows, ideally
all.
Thanks for your help
 
obones said:
Hi all

Can anyone tell me the result of running those three lines in an MS-DOS
window?

set MYVAR="hello"
set MYVAR=%MYVAR:"=%
echo %MYVAR%

Under windows XP, it returns hello without the double quotes, but I want
to be sure this would also work under other versions of Windows, ideally
all.
Thanks for your help
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It will only work under NT4.0, Win2000, and WinXP; it does not work in
Win3x, Win9x, or WinME. There is no "MS-DOS" in any version of NT.
 
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