{"id":21343,"date":"2008-08-06T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/08\/06\/the-caret-serves-as-the-continuation-character-for-batch-files\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T10:00:01","slug":"the-caret-serves-as-the-continuation-character-for-batch-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080806-01\/?p=21343","title":{"rendered":"The caret serves as the continuation character for batch files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> We saw earlier that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/05\/17\/599916.aspx\"> the caret is the escape character for the batch language<\/a>. In a comment to that article, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/05\/17\/599916.aspx#600425\"> KJK::Hyperion mentioned<\/a> that the caret <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/07\/31\/8792699.aspx\"> serves as the line continuation character<\/a>. A useful tip if you still find yourself messing with batch files. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/myocom\/archive\/2005\/09\/30\/475957.aspx\"> Mark Yocum elaborates on this point a bit more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw earlier that the caret is the escape character for the batch language. In a comment to that article, KJK::Hyperion mentioned that the caret serves as the line continuation character. A useful tip if you still find yourself messing with batch files. Mark Yocum elaborates on this point a bit more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-21343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We saw earlier that the caret is the escape character for the batch language. In a comment to that article, KJK::Hyperion mentioned that the caret serves as the line continuation character. A useful tip if you still find yourself messing with batch files. Mark Yocum elaborates on this point a bit more.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}