Batch file command

[Guest]

Why doesn't the following batch file command work in XP?
if (%1%) == () dir a:

When the following command does work:

if (%1%) == () dir

Fred

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Why doesn't the following batch file command work in XP?
if (%1%) == () dir a:

When the following command does work:

if (%1%) == () dir

Fred

Hi

Are you sure you don't mean this:

if (%1) == () dir a:


and
if (%1) == () dir

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much. Getting rid of that extra %
worked. I always used it before, but it didn't work on
XP in that one case. It seems strange that

if (%1%) == () dir

did work.

Thanks again,
Fred