[Psycoblast]

Hey guys its me again this time I need help with the batch choice command. I'm making a game and I need more letters to work with. I know how basic letters work heres an example.



Example:

CHOICE /C:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ > NUL

but is it possible to seperate lower case from upper case???
by adding a shift key with all the letters a-z or somthing to that effect?

Also how about symbols such as !@#$%mainly these !@#$%^&*.

Sorry for such a stupied question but thanks anyways guys.

-Psycoblast

[TheOutcaste]

The valid choice characters are: a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and ASCII values of 128 to 254
The alphanumeric keys give you 62 choices.

Add the /CS switch to make it Case Sensitive. (Choice /? shows this)
To enter the ASCII codes, you need to use the Dos EDIT program to edit the file and add those.
To edit the file using Edit, open a prompt and type:
Edit mychoice.bat

To enter the characters from 128-254, hold the ALT key and enter the 3 digit number on the Numeric key pad (you can't use the number keys above the alphabet keys).
The character will be entered when you release the ALT key.
You may have to use the left ALT key depending on your Language settings. On a laptop, you may have to turn on the embedded Numeric keypad, as ALT+FN+XXX doesn't always work.

The characters that are displayed in say Notepad or other text editors will not match what you see in the prompt either.
This is ALT+128 as seen in Notepad:
€
This is what it looks like in the Command Prompt:
Ç

And you do know that choice is not included with NT/Win2K/XP? And the WinME version will allow some punctuation, but the case sensitive switch is just /S, not /CS

HTH

Jerry

[Psycoblast]

Thanks i've been sarching the answer to this question for a very long time. I knew about the alt trick but never thought of using it in batch thanks again!!!

-Psycoblast