Batch file "Variable" issue

[TheReasonIFail]

OK, so I'm trying to move some information from people's "My Documents" but sadly those may sit on different locations so I'm trying to read the registry and creating a variable based on that, but it doesn't seem to be working.

Here's what I'm using:

FOR /F "tokens=2* delims=	 " %%A IN ('REG QUERY "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v Personal') DO SET PERSONAL=%%B
ECHO PERSONAL="%PERSONAL%"
CD %PERSONAL%

The echo command shows me the proper location, but when I attempt to change directory with that variable I get the following error message:

The system cannot find the path specified.

What am I doing wrong?!??!

Edited December 8, 2008 by TheReasonIFail

[jaclaz]

Try this:

ECHO OFF
FOR /F "tokens=3 delims=	" %%A IN ('REG QUERY "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v Personal') DO SET PERSONAL="%%A"
SET PERSONAL

ECHO Expanding variable with CALL to SUBROUTINE
CALL :Expand_var %PERSONAL%

ECHO Expanding variable with CALL SET
CALL SET PERSONAL=%PERSONAL%
SET PERSONAL
ECHO CD %PERSONAL%

pause
GOTO :EOF

:Expand_var
ECHO CD %1
GOTO :EOF

jaclaz

[an3k]

In a batch file (.bat or .cmd) the variables need two %%, in the command line (for testing) the variables only accept one %