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#1 29 Aug 2006 09:57

NDog
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From: New Zealand
Registered: 31 May 2006
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Overbloated SET section

my overbloated code currently is:

SET KEY1=&SET KEY2=&SET KEY3=&SET KEY4=&SET KEY5=&SET KEY6=&SET KEY7=&SET KEY8=&SET KEY9=&SET KEY10=&SET KEY11=&SET KEY12=&SET KEY13=&SET KEY14=&SET KEY15=&SET KEY16=&SET KEY17=&SET KEY18=&SET KEY19=&SET KEY20=&SET KEY21=&SET KEY22=&SET KEY23=&SET KEY24=&SET EY25=&SET KEY26=&SET KEY27=&SET KEY28=&SET KEY29=&SET KEY30=&SET KEY31=

How can I shorten this? All I am trying to do is clear/kill values of key1-key31. I would like some kind of loop to do this in a single or few commands(like for /f command), and also one that can just clear/kill the values of KEYx (x representing any amount of numbers).


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#2 29 Aug 2006 10:10

//[T.0.P]//
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Registered: 12 Aug 2006
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Re: Overbloated SET section

the FOR command is very powerful. There are many options for it. You can loop through a cetain set of values, sort through an output of an program execution or even loop through numbers like good ol' for loops are usually done.

You would use the FOR /L loop to loop through a set of numbers.

In this case, you can easily set an enviornment variable as an enviornment variable name:

SET %_variable%=Value

So in this case all you would do is:

for /L %%g in (1,1,31) do set KEY%%g=

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#3 29 Dec 2006 17:30

bluesxman
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Registered: 29 Dec 2006
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Re: Overbloated SET section

On a similar theme to what //[T.O.P]// suggests, I use this subroutine to "flush" all variables that are prefixed with the string(s) that are passed to it:

:flush

for %%f in (%*) do (

    (for /f "usebackq tokens=1 delims==" %%a in (`set %%~f`) do (set %%~a=) ) 2>nul

)

goto :EOF

So you'd want to be doing this: "call :flush KEY" but you could easily "flush" numerous variable prefixes, thus: "call: flush THIS THAT OTHER"


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