Bruno Haible scripsit: > How does % need to be quoted, then? Can you find out, please? This info > would be useful both for Paul's proposal and for mine.
Strings of the form %FOO% in cmd.exe commands are expanded iff FOO is an existing environment variable; otherwise, the string is left alone. All other uses of % are likewise left alone. This expansion is done *before* quotation marks are interpreted, so there is no way to escape it; you simply have to hope that you don't get hosed by it. -- We are lost, lost. No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry: yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nassty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just. --Gollum co...@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan
