Article ID: 71247
Article Last Modified on 5/12/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft MS-DOS 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 4.01 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0a
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.21 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q71247
SUMMARY
When a semicolon (;) or equal sign (=) is used as a command line argument in a batch file, it is treated as a blank space.
MORE INFORMATION
For example, in the following batch file, TEST.BAT,
echo %1 %2 %3
the command line and resulting output appear as follows:
Command Line Output
------------ ------
test a=b a b
test a;b a b
test ;ab ab
test = ECHO is on (parsed as test)
test ; ECHO is on
For more information, query on the following words:
equal and sign and characters and batch
Additional query words: 6.22 4.0 4.00 4.01 4.01a 5.00 5.00a 6.00 6.20
Keywords: KB71247
