how to read entire file into environment variable?

[Claire_CJS]

I want to read all the lines of a text file into an environment variable.

I had tried using %@EXECSTR[type file] but that only got the first line

Anyone already done this and have an example to share?

 

[Joe Caverly]

I have a file called games.txt, thus;

Gaming Laptop

NVIDIA Graphics Processor
- 6GB Minimum

Windows 10 Pro

Video
- 4K Video
- 17 inch minimum

16GB RAM Minimum

Intel CPU
- At least 6 cores
- Example: Intel Core i7-10750H

If the version of TCC that you are using has the pshell command;

pshell /s "$env:BigFile = Get-Content e:\utils\games.txt -Raw"

echo %BigFile
Gaming Laptop

NVIDIA Graphics Processor
- 6GB Minimum

Windows 10 Pro

Video
- 4K Video
- 17 inch minimum

16GB RAM Minimum

Intel CPU
- At least 6 cores
- Example: Intel Core i7-10750H

Joe

 

[Claire_CJS]

I tried that out, but alas, it consistently crashes my TCC (v29.00.17 x64) window entirely.

 

[Claire_CJS]

BTW, the answer for me ended up being this, though for me I separated each line with " / " because I actually wanted it to squish all onto one line for my situation:

            DO line IN @%TXT_FILE (
                set FILE=%FILE% / %line%
            )