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Batch Script to compare data Every day in my team a group of people extract a report from a portal and name it like ABC_23MAY2018.txt , XYZ_23MAY2018.txt and save it in a directory. ABC_23MAY2018.txt XYZ_23MAY2018.txt But because it is a manual process people do mistake like they extract the report of 22MAY2018 (giving the wrong date on the portal input) and name it ABC_23MAY2018.txt etc. This has caused of lots of issues as the file is used for reports purposes. I was thinking to create a batch script which will extract the date from the file name - 23MAY2018 and compare it with the date which will be extracted in another file date.txt. I have figured out to extract the date from file name : 22MAY2018 ABC_23MAY2018.txt 23MAY2018 set Filedate=ABC*.csv for /f %%A in ('dir /b %Filedate%') do ( set filename=%%~A set fileCSV=!filename:~9,10! echo !filename:~9,10! ) But how to compare it with the date in the file. for example, after extracting the date from filename its ...

How to set environment variables with spaces? I need to set values to a environmental variable using a batch file. I wrote the script for this: @echo off set value="Hello world" setx -M srijani "%srijani%;%value%" It gives the error: ERROR: Invalid syntax. Default option is not allowed more than '2' time(s). Type "SETX /?" for usage. I googled and found that while using white spaces we need to write it inside a double quotes. set value="Hello world" But, that is not working too. Note: I am on Windows 7. what are the values of %srijani% and %value% variables. – npocmaka Dec 18 '15 at 10:35 %srijani% %value% Standard mistake often made is using set variable="value" instead of set "variable=value" . See for example Why is no string output wit...