How can I load the contents of a text file into a batch file variable?

Question

I need to be able to load the entire contents of a text file and load it into a variable for further processing.

How can I do that?

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Answer 1

You can use:

set content=
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('type text.txt') do set content=!content! %%i