Batch file save/load variables

[Risen91]

The OUTPUT of the batch file!!!! You obviously didn't even bother to read the code and SEE THE SIX ECHO STATEMENTS IN THERE AND THE TYPE COMMAND THAT WAS OUTPUTTING WHAT IT NOW IN THE STATS FILE!

dude chill out? When you put the output as:

Strength 25
Health 100
Intellect 50
Strength 35
Health 95
Intellect 42
strength=35
health=95
intellect=42

I thought that it was simply adding the new values to the end, not overwriting them... and no I didn't bother to read it, want to know why? Because I don't understand the code, I'm new to batch files. Simple misunderstanding that's all.

[Squashman]

dude chill out? When you put the output as:I thought that it was simply adding the new values to the end, not overwriting them... and no I didn't bother to read it, want to know why? Because I don't understand the code, I'm new to batch files. Simple misunderstanding that's all.

So are you going to just run any code someone gives you just willy nilly without knowing what the code does?  For all you know I could have thrown in some code to delete all your My documents!  I could have sat there and called a bunch of sub routines or built some other undecipherable variable that when expanded would would delete all your My Documents.

If you don't understand the code you should have asked what the code was doing or at least ran it to see what it was doing instead of assuming it did something.  Because we all know what happens when we assume!

[Risen91]

"or at least ran it to see what it was doing instead of assuming it " you just contradicted yourself by telling me not to run code that I don't understand, then telling me to run it despite not knowing 
Its a help forum, I asked for help and I got the help I needed, I know a little and that the code you showed me isn't malicious, but not enough to know the things like: echo %%I=!%%I!>>settings.ini

Thread closed I got the help I needed.

[Salmon Trout]

Because we all know what happens when we assume!

What happens when we rant immoderately?

[Salmon Trout]

dude chill out? When you put the output as:I thought that it was simply adding the new values to the end, not overwriting them

Well, I thought that at first, and I been dealing with batch files since Moses was knee high to a mezuzah. Risen91, please don't assume (!) we're all as crabby as that other guy.

[Squashman]

What happens when we rant immoderately?

Apparently I become that same guy.

I guess my whole point was that I find it very disrespectful when people don't even bother to understand the code and then just say that it won't work for them.  We all spend hours upon hours a week helping people on the Internet and the least they could do is take the time to learn what we are trying to teach.  You know the old saying "Give a man a fish.....Teach a man too fish...."  In this instance I think it was the former.

[Salmon Trout]

I find it very disrespectful when people don't even bother to understand the code

You're going to see a lot of that at Computerhope. For the sake of your own sanity learn to get over it.

[patio]

Or maybe take a break for awhile...

[Squashman]

or more compact... choose a unique variable name prefix and then you can use Set to do all the work of writing the values to file with one command.

settings.ini:

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MyVarStrength=100
MyVarHealth=50
MyVarIntellect=65


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@echo off

REM Read settings from file
for /f %%S in (settings.ini) do set %%S

REM Show settings now stored in memory
echo strength  %MyVarStrength%
echo health    %MyVarHealth%
echo intellect %MyVarIntellect%

REM alter a setting in memory
set /p MyVarHealth="Enter new value for health ? "

REM Write settings to file
set MyVar > settings.ini


One difference is that after a write to file the variable names in settings.ini will be in alphabetical order of name. Like this...

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MyVarHealth=67
MyVarIntellect=65
MyVarStrength=100


I like this a lot better than my code.