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Not_Lazy
Not_Lazy

Reputation: 69

How do I find spaces in strings with batch

I've looked everywhere for an answer to this. Basically I need to find a " "(a space) in batch.

So, what i'm doing is making a custom command import/export batch script. Here is what i start by doing:

echo Enter commands file name without the .bat 
set/p "file=>"

Now, after that set/p... line, I want to test if the "file" string contains a space.

How I can achieve this without using a different coding language? I'm keeping this strictly batch.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3088

Answers (1)

Monacraft
Monacraft

Reputation: 6630

This works for me:

for /f "tokens=2" %%a in ("%file%") do Echo Contains Space

Which will only Echo Contains Space if there is a whitespace in file

Upvotes: 2

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