2 question: for loop and accented letters

[KiTiK]

Hello evryone,
this is KiTiK, i'm new here. And I'm new in batch scripting.
I read how for loop works both typing for /? in dos and in the article on this site.
But I still have some problem to get it entirely.
My purpose is to check if the command tasklist exist, and to do it i wrote this code:

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for /f "tokens=1,* delims=;" %%a in ("%PATH%") do (
if exist %%a\tasklist.exe (echo there is) else (echo there is not)
)this is good if the first entry in %path% is the system32 folder but i would like to check also in the other entries, but i connot understand how to do it without knowing the number of entries. Could you help me to understand it? It's puzzleing me

Another simple question: how can my bat echo accented letters (è, ò, ù) properly? I didn't find a solution searching in google.
Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad English

[Sidewinder]

this is good if the first entry in %path% is the system32 folder but i would like to check also in the other entries, but i connot understand how to do it without knowing the number of entries.

The is no need to know the number of entries in the path. You can use the $Path notation which will search the entire path until a match is found:

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@echo off
for %%a in (tasklist.exe) do if not "%%~$PATH:a"=="" echo %%~$PATH:a
)

$Path will only search until a match is found. If you have multiple copies of a program, the snippet will echo only the first to the console.

Another simple question: how can my bat echo accented letters (è, ò, ù) properly? I didn't find a solution searching in google.

Not to familiar with this, but I think you can use  the chcp command.

Good luck. 

[KiTiK]

really nice! I thought I should use $Path, but I put it in the wrong place, after the "IN".
Thanks, even if I'd like to ask you some explanation about the for loop, I use it in C programming, but it seems so different... I can not get it's logic, could you tell me something about it, please?

About the second question I think I'll use this notation: e', o', u'

[Salmon Trout]

$Path will only search until a match is found. If you have multiple copies of a program, the snippet will echo only the first to the console.

Not to familiar with this, but I think you can use  the chcp command.

Good luck. 

To echo accented characters the command environment needs to be using a "codepage" which has them in its character set. For the characters which you find in French and Spanish I use code page 1252 which you can select by

chcp 1252

at the prompt.

The code page you are currently in can be seen by typing chcp without a number.

[KiTiK]

Thanks for the tip Salmon Trout, but I tried it and I still get this symbol: þ instead of è.
Perhaps I have to specify something else in the echo command, but what?
Anyway thank you very much

[Salmon Trout]

Thanks for the tip Salmon Trout, but I tried it and I still get this symbol: þ instead of è.
Perhaps I have to specify something else in the echo command, but what?
Anyway thank you very much

what do you see when you type chcp at the prompt?

[KiTiK]

before i used chcp 1252 it was 850

[Helpmeh]

There's a different solution to what sidewinder is getting at, without changing any settings.

Open up MS-Word, put in your special characters, and click file > save. In the save menu, select Plain Text format (the one that says .txt). Then make sure the encoding is set to MS-DOS. If any letters are red, then they can't be used that way.

[KiTiK]

There's a different solution to what sidewinder is getting at, without changing any settings.

Open up MS-Word, put in your special characters, and click file > save. In the save menu, select Plain Text format (the one that says .txt). Then make sure the encoding is set to MS-DOS. If any letters are red, then they can't be used that way.

Thanks Helpmeh, I did it and I noticed that mu special characters changes after I saved in that way. So, I guess, this is the problem. I wonder how and why the same special characters are well echoed for example in the for /? command... Is there a way to print characters with their ascii code, perhaps? I don't know. If this is possible this could solve another my problem I didn't speak about yet
Anyway, thanks for helping me

[BC_Programmer]

I was able to paste è,ò, and ù into command prompt without changing anything...

[Salmon Trout]

I was able to paste è,ò, and ù into command prompt without changing anything...

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C:\Windows\system32>chcp
Active code page: 850

C:\Windows\system32>echo Nuages en début de journée
Nuages en début de journée