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Herin Alenta
Herin Alenta

Reputation: 47

How to get the name of a folder name separated by an underscore into a value in batch?

Okay, I am trying to get the name of a folder as a value in batch. The folder looks like this:

John_1

I am trying to only get the first part of the name the John part which is separated with an underscore.

Anyone got any solutions?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 121

Answers (1)

Ryan Bemrose
Ryan Bemrose

Reputation: 9266

Like most string processing in batch, the FOR /F command enables you to do this, with the use of the delims argument.

for /f "delims=_" %%a in ("john_1") do set "name=%%a"

Now the part you want is in the %name% variable.

Usually you have the string to parse in a variable and not source, though. To run the above with a variable, you can echo the variable.

set sz=John_1
for /f "delims=_" %%a in ('echo %sz%') do set "name=%%a"

Finally, if for any reason you want to get the second part of the string, FOR can allocate another variable to hold it by using the tokens= argument.

set sz=John_1
for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=_" %%a in ('echo %sz%') do ( set "name=%%a" & set "number=%%b" )

FOR is one of the most powerful commands in the batch language. Run help for to see the full list of options available.

Upvotes: 3

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