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Badass3lite
Badass3lite

Reputation: 13

How to Echo to a txt when echo is off?

I want a user to enter a string which will be saved into a variable which will then be Echoed into a text file...

And this is what I've got:

set /p string = Enter string to add to the text file:
echo %string% > saves.txt
echo Added %string% to the text file

but in saves.txt it gives me:

Echo is off.

(I'm sorry if a similar topic has popped up like this but I'm new to programming and I wasn't sure what to get out of it)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 139

Answers (1)

MC ND
MC ND

Reputation: 70933

set /p string = Enter string to add to the text file:
             ^ here is the problem

As you are defining a variable with a space in its name, when you echo %string%, without space, you can not get the content of the variable. Change your code to 

set /p "string= Enter string to add to the text file:"

Upvotes: 3

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