Parsing strings in windows batch files

To replace a substring with another string use the string substitution feature. The example shown here replaces all occurrences "teh" misspellings with "the" in the string variable str.

The example shows how to return the last 4 characters of a string. Use the FOR command to split a string into parts. The example shows how to split a date variable into its parts. Use the FOR command to trim spaces at the beginning of a variable. Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I want to end up with a variable that contains only "".

Is there any built-in way to do this? If you just want everything after the underscore and do not necessarily know the length of the string or where the underscore is, but can rely on there being only one underscore , try:.

The loop will only run once since you are dealing with a single string in this case. If you find that the batch language isn't powerful enough to do what you want - and it likely won't take you too long to get to that point - you can use the Windows PowerShell. This isn't installed by default on all versions of Windows, but you can download it free of charge.

If you don't like the PowerShell language, there's Perl. You'll have to install that on all systems though. There are others too. This will extract last token from string with any tokens number and any type of delimiters.

In this example ECHO will show "i". Although it requires a loop function, it's very fast. Sign up to join this community. SomethingDark: I am not sure that paths in the file will not have spaces, but we can assume that for now — VolAnd. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. JosefZ JosefZ That works for Examples 1 and 2.

I think it is enough for me now. VolAnd - findstr - Search for strings in files. I have passed over : colon in data example 3. Your help is really useful — VolAnd. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. The output I want is: string1 string2 So, basically, split the string into 2 parts by the delimiter by and remove the suffix from the second string. Improve this question. Bud Bud 2 2 gold badges 10 10 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer.

Aacini Aacini 61k 12 12 gold badges 65 65 silver badges 97 97 bronze badges. No, thanks. I think the OP should realize that the answer to the question is to take 1st and 3rd tokens, that is, I don't think he wants that 2nd token be precisely " by " just my opinion : — Aacini. Show 5 more comments. Can you explain why this works? It's super confusing to me. Andrew: Is simple You may also remove the echo off line, run the program and review in the screen the executed lines.

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