Batch failure “numeric constants are decimal, hexadecimal or octal” when performing addition, why does it...
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime ^| find "."') do set dt=%%a
set month=%dt:~4,2%
set day=%dt:~6,2%
set /a rday=%day%+470
set /a rmonth+%month%+590
echo %rmonth%
echo %rday%
pause
What I am trying to do, is find the day and the month, and add numbers to their value. For the month, I'm adding 590, and for the day, I'm adding 470.
It works fine for the day, but for the month, it does not work, and I receive the error "Invalid number. Numeric constants are either decimal (17),
hexadecimal (0x11), or octal (021)."
I am by no means a programmer, or knowledgeable in batch. I have found the code for extracting the day and the month on the internet, the only thing I've done myself is the last part, and it does not seem to work properly. I assume there must be a simple fix.
batch
asked Sep 19 '17 at 11:17
HenryHenry
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for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime ^| find "."') do set dt=%%a
set month=%dt:~4,2%
set day=%dt:~6,2%
set /a rday=%day%+470
set /a rmonth+%month%+590
echo %rmonth%
echo %rday%
pause
What I am trying to do, is find the day and the month, and add numbers to their value. For the month, I'm adding 590, and for the day, I'm adding 470.
It works fine for the day, but for the month, it does not work, and I receive the error "Invalid number. Numeric constants are either decimal (17),
hexadecimal (0x11), or octal (021)."
I am by no means a programmer, or knowledgeable in batch. I have found the code for extracting the day and the month on the internet, the only thing I've done myself is the last part, and it does not seem to work properly. I assume there must be a simple fix.
batch
asked Sep 19 '17 at 11:17
HenryHenry
103
add a comment |
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime ^| find "."') do set dt=%%a
set month=%dt:~4,2%
set day=%dt:~6,2%
set /a rday=%day%+470
set /a rmonth+%month%+590
echo %rmonth%
echo %rday%
pause
What I am trying to do, is find the day and the month, and add numbers to their value. For the month, I'm adding 590, and for the day, I'm adding 470.
It works fine for the day, but for the month, it does not work, and I receive the error "Invalid number. Numeric constants are either decimal (17),
hexadecimal (0x11), or octal (021)."
I am by no means a programmer, or knowledgeable in batch. I have found the code for extracting the day and the month on the internet, the only thing I've done myself is the last part, and it does not seem to work properly. I assume there must be a simple fix.
batch
asked Sep 19 '17 at 11:17
HenryHenry
103
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime ^| find "."') do set dt=%%a
set month=%dt:~4,2%
set day=%dt:~6,2%
set /a rday=%day%+470
set /a rmonth+%month%+590
echo %rmonth%
echo %rday%
pause
What I am trying to do, is find the day and the month, and add numbers to their value. For the month, I'm adding 590, and for the day, I'm adding 470.
It works fine for the day, but for the month, it does not work, and I receive the error "Invalid number. Numeric constants are either decimal (17),
hexadecimal (0x11), or octal (021)."
I am by no means a programmer, or knowledgeable in batch. I have found the code for extracting the day and the month on the internet, the only thing I've done myself is the last part, and it does not seem to work properly. I assume there must be a simple fix.
batch
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It means 01 or 07 would be interpreted as octal number because of leading 0. It's September and 09 is not a valid octal number.
A workaround could be
set /a rmonth+1%month%+490
but this looks like an ugly hack. I will gladly upvote another answer with the right solution.
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:21
Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski
25.6k155578
@Vlad Yes, I think the day will not always work either.
– Kamil Maciorowski
Sep 19 '17 at 11:27
I tested your solution, and it can work. It ended up with 599, which is a hundred days more than it should, but it's easy to subtract a hundred from the total value and receive the actual value. Thanks!
– Henry
Sep 19 '17 at 11:28
add a comment |
I had this problem, while extracting day and month from a date string.
Adding a preceding zero to a %VALUE% in the 1..9 range raised the error.
My solution was something like this:
rem -- demo starts with a digit less than 10 but more than octal 7
set VALUE=9
rem -- add value to 100
set /a NEWVALUE=%VALUE%+100
rem -- no calculation but string manipulation : strip all but last two digits
set VALUE=%NEWVALUE:~-2%
rem -- digital environments too should be kept clean ;)
set NEWVALUE=
edited Dec 19 '18 at 11:29
zx485
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answered Dec 19 '18 at 9:38
Jan van HultenJan van Hulten
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Apply % Modulus operator as follows:
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime ^| find "."') do set dt=%%a
set month=%dt:~4,2%
set day=%dt:~6,2%
set /a rday=1%day%%%100+470
rem ↑ ↑↑
set /a rmonth=1%month%%%100+590
rem ↑ ↑↑
echo %rmonth%
echo %rday%
pause
Note that you need to double % percent sign in a batch script (read Escaping Percents):
The
%character has a special meaning for command line parameters
andFORparameters. To treat a percent as a regular character,
double it:
%%
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:38
JosefZJosefZ
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It means 01 or 07 would be interpreted as octal number because of leading 0. It's September and 09 is not a valid octal number.
A workaround could be
set /a rmonth+1%month%+490
but this looks like an ugly hack. I will gladly upvote another answer with the right solution.
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:21
Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski
25.6k155578
@Vlad Yes, I think the day will not always work either.
– Kamil Maciorowski
Sep 19 '17 at 11:27
I tested your solution, and it can work. It ended up with 599, which is a hundred days more than it should, but it's easy to subtract a hundred from the total value and receive the actual value. Thanks!
– Henry
Sep 19 '17 at 11:28
add a comment |
It means 01 or 07 would be interpreted as octal number because of leading 0. It's September and 09 is not a valid octal number.
A workaround could be
set /a rmonth+1%month%+490
but this looks like an ugly hack. I will gladly upvote another answer with the right solution.
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:21
Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski
25.6k155578
@Vlad Yes, I think the day will not always work either.
– Kamil Maciorowski
Sep 19 '17 at 11:27
I tested your solution, and it can work. It ended up with 599, which is a hundred days more than it should, but it's easy to subtract a hundred from the total value and receive the actual value. Thanks!
– Henry
Sep 19 '17 at 11:28
add a comment |
It means 01 or 07 would be interpreted as octal number because of leading 0. It's September and 09 is not a valid octal number.
A workaround could be
set /a rmonth+1%month%+490
but this looks like an ugly hack. I will gladly upvote another answer with the right solution.
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:21
Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski
25.6k155578
It means 01 or 07 would be interpreted as octal number because of leading 0. It's September and 09 is not a valid octal number.
A workaround could be
set /a rmonth+1%month%+490
but this looks like an ugly hack. I will gladly upvote another answer with the right solution.
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:21
Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski
25.6k155578
edited Sep 19 '17 at 11:25
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:21
Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski
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answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:21
Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski
25.6k155578
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:21
Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski
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25.6k155578
@Vlad Yes, I think the day will not always work either.
– Kamil Maciorowski
Sep 19 '17 at 11:27
I tested your solution, and it can work. It ended up with 599, which is a hundred days more than it should, but it's easy to subtract a hundred from the total value and receive the actual value. Thanks!
– Henry
Sep 19 '17 at 11:28
add a comment |
@Vlad Yes, I think the day will not always work either.
– Kamil Maciorowski
Sep 19 '17 at 11:27
I tested your solution, and it can work. It ended up with 599, which is a hundred days more than it should, but it's easy to subtract a hundred from the total value and receive the actual value. Thanks!
– Henry
Sep 19 '17 at 11:28
@Vlad Yes, I think the day will not always work either.
– Kamil Maciorowski
Sep 19 '17 at 11:27
@Vlad Yes, I think the day will not always work either.
– Kamil Maciorowski
Sep 19 '17 at 11:27
I tested your solution, and it can work. It ended up with 599, which is a hundred days more than it should, but it's easy to subtract a hundred from the total value and receive the actual value. Thanks!
– Henry
Sep 19 '17 at 11:28
I tested your solution, and it can work. It ended up with 599, which is a hundred days more than it should, but it's easy to subtract a hundred from the total value and receive the actual value. Thanks!
– Henry
Sep 19 '17 at 11:28
add a comment |
I had this problem, while extracting day and month from a date string.
Adding a preceding zero to a %VALUE% in the 1..9 range raised the error.
My solution was something like this:
rem -- demo starts with a digit less than 10 but more than octal 7
set VALUE=9
rem -- add value to 100
set /a NEWVALUE=%VALUE%+100
rem -- no calculation but string manipulation : strip all but last two digits
set VALUE=%NEWVALUE:~-2%
rem -- digital environments too should be kept clean ;)
set NEWVALUE=
edited Dec 19 '18 at 11:29
zx485
826613
answered Dec 19 '18 at 9:38
Jan van HultenJan van Hulten
111
add a comment |
I had this problem, while extracting day and month from a date string.
Adding a preceding zero to a %VALUE% in the 1..9 range raised the error.
My solution was something like this:
rem -- demo starts with a digit less than 10 but more than octal 7
set VALUE=9
rem -- add value to 100
set /a NEWVALUE=%VALUE%+100
rem -- no calculation but string manipulation : strip all but last two digits
set VALUE=%NEWVALUE:~-2%
rem -- digital environments too should be kept clean ;)
set NEWVALUE=
edited Dec 19 '18 at 11:29
zx485
826613
answered Dec 19 '18 at 9:38
Jan van HultenJan van Hulten
111
add a comment |
I had this problem, while extracting day and month from a date string.
Adding a preceding zero to a %VALUE% in the 1..9 range raised the error.
My solution was something like this:
rem -- demo starts with a digit less than 10 but more than octal 7
set VALUE=9
rem -- add value to 100
set /a NEWVALUE=%VALUE%+100
rem -- no calculation but string manipulation : strip all but last two digits
set VALUE=%NEWVALUE:~-2%
rem -- digital environments too should be kept clean ;)
set NEWVALUE=
edited Dec 19 '18 at 11:29
zx485
826613
answered Dec 19 '18 at 9:38
Jan van HultenJan van Hulten
111
I had this problem, while extracting day and month from a date string.
Adding a preceding zero to a %VALUE% in the 1..9 range raised the error.
My solution was something like this:
rem -- demo starts with a digit less than 10 but more than octal 7
set VALUE=9
rem -- add value to 100
set /a NEWVALUE=%VALUE%+100
rem -- no calculation but string manipulation : strip all but last two digits
set VALUE=%NEWVALUE:~-2%
rem -- digital environments too should be kept clean ;)
set NEWVALUE=
edited Dec 19 '18 at 11:29
zx485
826613
answered Dec 19 '18 at 9:38
Jan van HultenJan van Hulten
111
edited Dec 19 '18 at 11:29
zx485
826613
edited Dec 19 '18 at 11:29
zx485
826613
edited Dec 19 '18 at 11:29
zx485
826613
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answered Dec 19 '18 at 9:38
Jan van HultenJan van Hulten
111
answered Dec 19 '18 at 9:38
Jan van HultenJan van Hulten
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answered Dec 19 '18 at 9:38
Jan van HultenJan van Hulten
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Apply % Modulus operator as follows:
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime ^| find "."') do set dt=%%a
set month=%dt:~4,2%
set day=%dt:~6,2%
set /a rday=1%day%%%100+470
rem ↑ ↑↑
set /a rmonth=1%month%%%100+590
rem ↑ ↑↑
echo %rmonth%
echo %rday%
pause
Note that you need to double % percent sign in a batch script (read Escaping Percents):
The
%character has a special meaning for command line parameters
andFORparameters. To treat a percent as a regular character,
double it:
%%
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:38
JosefZJosefZ
7,22041544
add a comment |
Apply % Modulus operator as follows:
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime ^| find "."') do set dt=%%a
set month=%dt:~4,2%
set day=%dt:~6,2%
set /a rday=1%day%%%100+470
rem ↑ ↑↑
set /a rmonth=1%month%%%100+590
rem ↑ ↑↑
echo %rmonth%
echo %rday%
pause
Note that you need to double % percent sign in a batch script (read Escaping Percents):
The
%character has a special meaning for command line parameters
andFORparameters. To treat a percent as a regular character,
double it:
%%
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:38
JosefZJosefZ
7,22041544
add a comment |
Apply % Modulus operator as follows:
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime ^| find "."') do set dt=%%a
set month=%dt:~4,2%
set day=%dt:~6,2%
set /a rday=1%day%%%100+470
rem ↑ ↑↑
set /a rmonth=1%month%%%100+590
rem ↑ ↑↑
echo %rmonth%
echo %rday%
pause
Note that you need to double % percent sign in a batch script (read Escaping Percents):
The
%character has a special meaning for command line parameters
andFORparameters. To treat a percent as a regular character,
double it:
%%
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:38
JosefZJosefZ
7,22041544
Apply % Modulus operator as follows:
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime ^| find "."') do set dt=%%a
set month=%dt:~4,2%
set day=%dt:~6,2%
set /a rday=1%day%%%100+470
rem ↑ ↑↑
set /a rmonth=1%month%%%100+590
rem ↑ ↑↑
echo %rmonth%
echo %rday%
pause
Note that you need to double % percent sign in a batch script (read Escaping Percents):
The
%character has a special meaning for command line parameters
andFORparameters. To treat a percent as a regular character,
double it:
%%
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:38
JosefZJosefZ
7,22041544
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:38
JosefZJosefZ
7,22041544
answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:38
JosefZJosefZ
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answered Sep 19 '17 at 11:38
JosefZJosefZ
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