assigning commandline variables

[jbm]

How do you assign a commandline variable to environment variables?

using this in a batch file if I don't type anything after mybatch

I'm prompted and what is properly assigned the value. But if I type

"mybatch doit" its not. Or is this not possible?

mybatch

set what = %1
if Not DEFINED what set /P what=?
echo %1
echo %what%

Thanks for any help

[gunsmokingman]

Is This What You Want

Echo Off && CLS && MODE 75,5 && Color f3 && Title Set New Varible

set what =

Echo. && if Not DEFINED what set /P what= %UserName%, Type In The New Varible?-^>

CLS && Color 3F

Echo. && set /P = %UserName%, The Input Enter = %what%, Press Key To Exit

[jbm]

I want to copy the command line variable to an environment variable

but something like

set myvariable = %1

doesn't work

[jbm]

found my answer had to change

set what=%1 to set what=%~f1

[Yzöwl]

actually your only problem was the additional spaces before and after the equals symbol

set what=%1
if Not DEFINED what set /P what=?
echo %1
echo %what%

[jbm]

Thanks it worked with out the extra space.