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I am making a memory game in batch for fun and came upon a problem. I had a high score's file for player scores and no mater what file type i used it could be read and edited.

I am wondering if it is possible for a .bat file to store data within itself permanently, even after i close the program. So when open it again the data will still be there. Is this possible?

Thank-you in advance guys.

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@echo off
for /f "tokens=1 delims=:" %%D in ('findstr /R /N "end_of_batch_label" "%~f0"' ) do set end_batch=%%D

echo -- HERE WE MAKE A NEW SELF CONTAINED RECORD --

echo echo data entry 4^>^>"%~f0"
echo(>>"%~f0"
echo data entry ^4>>"%~f0"

echo -- HERE STARTS PRINTING OF SELF CONTAINED DATA --
type "%~f0" | more +%end_batch%
exit /b 0


:end_of_batch_label

data entry 1
data entry 2


data entry 3

Of course it is.Try the code above.

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Thank-you, but can you explain this. I am relatively new to programming and well this is a little beyond me. – Calder Hutchins May 27 '13 at 18:26
    
The data entries starts after :end_of_batch_label.With findstr /R /N "end_of_batch_label" "%~f0" we can find all lined that contains end_of_batch_label and putting this command in FOR /F we can extract the last line of these.With more +number we can print the content of the file after the pointed line.Hope this will help... – npocmaka May 27 '13 at 18:29
    
Is it possible to save a players score in in a batch game in the .bat file then call the data? Also what does "%~f0" and more +%end_batch% do? – Calder Hutchins May 27 '13 at 18:32
    
"%~f0" is a special parameter that will hold the path to batch file (unless shift command is used) .` +%end_batch% ` is a parameter passed to the MORE command (after the line where end_of_batch_label is found and the number is assigned to end_batch).E.g type some_file|more +5 will print all content of some_file after the 5th line. – npocmaka May 27 '13 at 18:35
    
Ok thank-you. I will experiment with this :) – Calder Hutchins May 27 '13 at 18:36

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