# Build 1594 - No longer passing variables back

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/build-1594-no-longer-passing-variables-back/5786
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [March 12, 2013, 11:30am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/build-1594-no-longer-passing-variables-back/5786 "2013-03-12T11:30:39Z")
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### Author: ![ageuk](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ageuk](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/ageuk)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2013, 11:30am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/build-1594-no-longer-passing-variables-back/5786/1 "2013-03-12T11:30:39Z")

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Hi

I have been passing variables back from a Batch file with lines similar to&nbsp;@@log{setvariable name="tempVar" value="Hello World"} &nbsp;in my batch files. &nbsp;This was working fine until I upgraded to 1594 yesterday

As a test I have written a very simple batch file and config

@echo off  
REM  
REM testContinua  
REM  
REM TEST SCRIPT FOR CONTINUA  
  
echo @@log{Starting Test Script}  
  
echo @@log{setvariable name="tempVar" value="Hello World"}

Then in my continua config I have defined the variable tempVar with a default value of 'default'

The Continua log now shows

@@log{Starting Test Script}  
@@log{setvariable name="tempVar" value="Hello World"} [Value cannot be null. Parameter name: value not specified for variable]

and the value is not set

Thanks

Rob

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### Author: ![Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/vincent/32/938_2.png) [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/build-1594-no-longer-passing-variables-back/5786/2 "2013-03-12T01:59:43Z")

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Hi Rob   
  
 My apologies, we had to make some changes to the syntax recently to deal with ambiguities that were impossible to parse. I forgot that someone was already using this (we haven’t documented yet as we wanted to nail down the syntax first).   
  
 This should work   
  
 echo @@log{Starting Test Script}   
  
 echo @@log{setvariable name=“tempVar”, value=“Hello World”}   
  
 The only difference is the parameters need a comma separator.

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### Author: ![rob.langley](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/rob.langley/32/136_2.png) [@rob.langley](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/rob.langley)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2013, 5:56am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/build-1594-no-longer-passing-variables-back/5786/3 "2013-03-12T05:56:39Z")

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Thanks…   
  
 this is all working again 🙂   
  
 Rob