I have a batch-script with multiple arguments. I am reading the total count of them and then run a for loop like this:
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set argCount=0
for %%x in (%*) do set /A argCount+=1
echo Number of processed arguments: %argCount%
set /a counter=0
for /l %%x in (1, 1, %argCount%) do (
set /a counter=!counter!+1 )
What I want to do now, is to use my running variable (x
or counter
) to access the input arguments. I am thinking aobut something like this:
REM Access to %1
echo %(!counter!)
In an ideal world this line should print out my first command line argument but obviously it doesn't. I know I am doing something wrong with the %
operator, but is there anyway I could access my arguments like this?
//edit: Just to make things clear - the problem is that %(!counter!)
provides me with the value of the variable counter
. Meaning for counter=2
it gives me 2
and not the content of %2
.
here's one way to access the second (e.g.) argument (this can be put in for /l loop):
@echo off
setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
set /a counter=2
call echo %%!counter!
endlocal
so:
setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
set /a counter=0
for /l %%x in (1, 1, %argCount%) do (
set /a counter=!counter!+1
call echo %%!counter!
)
endlocal
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set argCount=0
for %%x in (%*) do (
set /A argCount+=1
set "argVec[!argCount!]=%%~x"
)
echo Number of processed arguments: %argCount%
for /L %%i in (1,1,%argCount%) do echo %%i- "!argVec[%%i]!"
For example:
C:> test One "This is | the & second one" Third
Number of processed arguments: 3
1- "One"
2- "This is | the & second one"
3- "Third"
Another one:
C:> test One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve etc...
Number of processed arguments: 13
1- "One"
2- "Two"
3- "Three"
4- "Four"
5- "Five"
6- "Six"
7- "Seven"
8- "Eight"
9- "Nine"
10- "Ten"
11- "Eleven"
12- "Twelve"
13- "etc..."
:loop
@echo %1
shift
if not "%~1"=="" goto loop
If to keep the code short rather than wise, then
for %%x in (%*) do (
echo Hey %%~x
)
@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET nparms=0
FOR /l %%i IN (1,1,20) DO (
SET myparm=%%i
CALL :setparm %*
IF DEFINED myparm SET nparms=%%i&CALL ECHO Parameter %%i=%%myparm%%
)
ECHO there were %nparms% parameters in %*
GOTO :EOF
:setparm
IF %myparm%==1 SET myparm=%1&GOTO :EOF
shift&SET /a myparm -=1&GOTO setparm
GOTO :eof
This should show how to extract random parameters by position.
For simple iteration can't we just check for additional arguments with "shift /1" at the end of the code and loop back? This will handle more than 10 arguments, upper limit not tested.
:loop
:: Your code using %1
echo %1
:: Check for further batch arguments.
shift /1
IF [%1]==[] (
goto end
) ELSE (
goto loop
)
:end
pause