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From: peterh@hemel.bull.co.uk (Peter Holditch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Getting rid of "syntax error" from .bat files - how to?
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Date: 7 Dec 90 14:14:27 GMT
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brand@cad.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand) writes:

>I have written a batch file which accepts parameters from the command
>line using the:
>	if %1==param1
>syntax. It works fine except that if I don't pass any parameters, I
>get the above syntax error message. Is there any way to suppress this?

>In addition, is there any way of passing a string, the first character
>of which is a dash (-), as in -f? It doesn't seem to work with the
>above test.

>Cheers,
>-Graham

To supress the syntax error, use
	if "%1"=="param1"
or
	if %1.==param1.

as for passing strings starting with -, I have no problem on dos 3.20 

Peter Holditch
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