Question

I’m unable to set the value of variable foo.The script is as follows:

@echo off
set foo = %1
echo %foo%

I’m getting this as an output:

ECHO is off

Can anyone tell me what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Remove the spaces surrounding your equals sign:

@echo off
set foo=%1
echo %foo%

EDIT (to elaborate):

You’re getting ECHO is off because %foo% isn’t set to anything, so the command prompt only sees ECHO.