Question

This is my first time doing these things.
Basically I am creating a batch file html maker for church songs. This is what I am stuck with:

echo <br> %var17% >>Runfiles\temporary2.txt

Basically var 17 is a line of lyric and I want to add a line break in front of it. I have seperated the template maker into three parts:

• first half
• lyrics
• second half

Here is the code:

@echo off
copy "I:\Build\Files\*.txt"

ren *.txt temp.txt

setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set vidx=0
for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (temp.txt) do (
SET /A vidx=!vidx! + 1
set var!vidx!=%%A
)
set var

echo <br> %var17% >>Runfiles\temporary2.txt

TYPE Runfiles\temp1.txt > run.html  
TYPE temp.txt >> run.html
TYPE Runfiles\temp2.txt >> run.html
pause

Temp 1 is the beginning and temp2 is the end, so I have a lyric document and I want to insert a <br> element in front of all of them.

The reason is because I have somewhat 100 songs to process and it takes so long to do it manually.

Answer 1

echo ^<br^>

Circumflex is the escape character in DOS/Win command line.