WinXP CMD commands

[Magos]

Was writing a few CMD commands to relieve some tedious copying work, but these didn't work at all. I made a simple test after reading some references:

set x = 23
set y = a%x%b %x% c
set y

And this gave the output:

y = ab  c

This doesn't seem right at all, what could be wrong? The variable is empty...?

[GanglyLamb]

@ECHO OFF
set x=23
set y=a%x%b %x% c
echo %y%
pause

output:

a23b 23 c
Press any key to continue . . .

Works for me... When you put a space between the var name and the value it wont work though.

[Magos]

Seemed to solve it, thanks!
(I'd expect the references to mention an important detail as this one...)