difficulty with echoing in windows batch file

[LumbergTech]

How can I get this to echo into a file properly?

http://pastebin.com/3454tFWV


I think the spaces are goofing it up, but there must be a cleaner way to do this?

 

[veri745]

Try single quotes around the lines you're writing

*edit* what environment and shell are you using? There are some important differences between different shells.

 

[veri745]

I guess I can't read titles 🙂

What's the problem you're having? If it's just that the spacing is off, you can escape a space with a ^ as well

You have a lot of extra escapes, but I don't see any problems with your original:

I tried:

echo ^<?xml version="1.0"?^> > %myFile%
echo ^<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" >> %myFile%
echo  xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" >> %myFile%
echo  xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"  >> %myFile%
echo  xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"  >> %myFile%
echo  xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"^>  >> %myFile%
echo  ^<Worksheet ss:Name="Sheet1"^> >> %myFile%
echo   ^<Table ss:ExpandedColumnCount="2" ss:ExpandedRowCount="2" x:FullColumns="1" x:FullRows="1"^> >> %myFile%

Seems to work fine