Do Batch files support multiline variables

Question

If so How?

Yes, batch files are lame, but I cannot use powershell, and I don't feel like writing a real app to do this simple task....

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What i want is somthing along the lines of

set var="this is a  multi  line  string " 

Answer 1

Or you can create a "real" newline character.

setlocal enableDelayedExpansion set NL=^   rem two empty line required echo first line !NL! second line set multi=Line1!NL!Line2 set multi=!multi!!NL!Line3 echo !Multi! 

With this variant the newline is a "normal" character in the string, so the variables act normally and you can assign them to another variable, this is not possible with the &echo. trick (which is useful for simple tasks).

Answer 2

Is that ok?

@echo off set var=kur set var2=kur2 echo var is = "%var%" and var2 is = %var2% 

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is that what you mean ?

@echo off set nl=^& echo. echo this%nl%is%nl%multiline%nl%string