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Samuel Nicholson
Samuel Nicholson

Reputation: 3629

Batch: Grab first letter of a string

Currently testing a few things and wandered if it was possible to grab the first letter of a string and assign it to a variable?

Some context/example:

set USRDIR1==\\SERVER\Users\%username%
if not exist %USRDIR1% mdkir %USRDIR1%

rem // grab first letter from %username% and assign to %firstletter% //

set USDIR2==\\SERVER\Users\%firstletter%\%Username%
if not exist %USRDIR2% mkdir %USRDIR2%

Upvotes: 1

Views: 87

Answers (1)

npocmaka
npocmaka

Reputation: 57252

set USRDIR1==\\SERVER\Users\%username%
if not exist %USRDIR1% mdkir %USRDIR1%

rem // grab first letter from %username% and assign to %firstletter% //
set firstletter=%username:~0,1%

set USDIR2==\\SERVER\Users\%firstletter%\%Username%
if not exist %USRDIR2% mkdir %USRDIR2%

Check variable substring syntax

Upvotes: 3

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