The Old New Thing

What this batch file needs is more escape characters

October 29, 2009 Oct 29, 2009 10/29/09

Raymond Chen

(Employing the snowclone "What this X needs is more Y.") Each time you add a parsing pass to the batch processor, you have to add another layer of escaping. This is just a special case of the more general rule of thumb: any problem in quoting can be solved by adding another layer of escaping. (Okay, it's not actually true, nor is it a ...