Batch File Error.

[BlazingFire007]

I am having some trouble making a batch file that writes the "&" character onto a vbs file.
Normally i would do something like:
@echo off
echo Hello, how old are you?
set /p age=
echo What is your name?
set /p name=
echo You are %AGE% & your name is %name% > file.txt
exit
That is just an example but I want to know if either you can make cmd ignore the "&" so it doesn't try to run "your" as a command, or if there is a replacement for "&" in VBscript.

[Salmon Trout]

To write certain special characters from a batch we have to prefix them with an escape character. For the ampersand (&) this is a caret (^) thus you would need to put this in your batch file

echo You are %AGE% ^& your name is %name% > file.txt

Table of special characters and how to escape them

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/escapechars.php

[BlazingFire007]

Thanks, it worked!