Attempting to use FOR in DOS .bat file

[John_L.]

I have numerous file in the current directory (FILE.1.txt, FILE.1.txt, FILE.3.txt, etc.) and am attempting to use the FOR command in a .bat file as follows:

   FOR /F %%FILE IN ("FILE.*.txt") DO java -cp .;../. myJavaClass CONSTANT %%~nxFILE %%~nFILE.tmp %%~nFILEout.txt

passing various forms of the filename as parameters to the Java class. Unfortunately, this fails with the message:

   %FILE was unexpected at this time.

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

[Salmon Trout]

%%FILE

FOR variables can only be single letters (A-Z, a-z, case sensitive). Type FOR /? at the prompt to see the documentation.