Is there a way to have a multi line user input prompt in batch?

Question

I've been trying to make a user input prompt that displays itself as multiple lines.

Example of how I want it to look:

Welcome to the program!
What would you like to do?
option [1]
option [2]
option [3]

This is how I tried to do that:

set /p selection="Welcome to the program! ^ What would you like to do? ^ option [1] ^ option [2] ^ option [3]"

But when I run that, it comes out like this:

Welcome to the program!  What would you like to do?  option [1]  option [2]  option [3]

I googled it but I couldn't find anything that helped, so if someone could tell me a way to do this that would be great!

Answer 1

Maybe it's simple.

@echo off
echo welcome to program!
echo what would you like to do?
echo option[1]
echo option[2]
echo option[3]

set /p selection=