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PO"missing operator" error message while using the "set /a" command
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copied!<p>Ok so ive been finishing off my batch program called "stringparsing.bat" and the last error im having trouble with is one that says "missing operator" when i use the following snippet:</p> <pre><code>set /p linecount= cls set foo=0 set linenumber=0 :lineset set /a linenumber=%linenumber% +1 set /p line1= %linenumber% echo %line1% >> %name%.txt set /a foo=%foo%+1 set /a line number=%linenumber%+1 IF %foo%==%linecount% goto MAIN123 goto lineset </code></pre> <p>More specificly, ive narrowed it down to : </p> <pre><code>set /a linenumber=%linenumber% +1 set /p line1= %linenumber% </code></pre> <p>Im pretty sure im mis-using the <strong>set /p</strong> command... what i am trying to do, is make a prompt that asks the user to input how many lines of text that they are going to insert into a text file. Then make a loop that asks the user to type some text which is then sent to the text file. But i wanted to to put the line number before the prompt so that it would look like this:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/e4y97.png" alt="alt text"></p> <p>So when the batch file asks for the first line, it says 1: , and when it asks for the second line, its says 2: , and so on. after each line prompt, i get the "missing operator" error message... Btw i need to use this scirpt to get it to work:</p> <p>set /p line1= %linenumber%+1</p> <p>But in order to use this command with the <strong>+1</strong> at the end, do i have to add the <strong>/a</strong> parameter as well as the <strong>/p</strong> parameter?</p> <p>Any ideas?</p>

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