"bvb47 via WinServerKB.com" <u37442@uwe> wrote in message
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> Hello!,
>
> I'm trying to obtain a random number in batch file.
>
> if I type
>> set /a X=%random%%108
> in command prompt work ok, but if I put this instruction in batch file,
> don't
> work!
>
> anybody know why?
>
> thanks!
>
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At a command prompt I get:

nnnnn%108

where nnnnn is a random integer. In a batch file I get:

nnnnnn08

This is because %1 is blank. If I pass "Test" to the batch file as the first
argument, I get an error because "Test" is not numeric. If I pass 23 as the
argument, I get:

nnnnnn2308

Seems to work for me. Of course the environment variable only lasts until I
exit the command prompt.

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Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
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