Thats pretty much how I have done it in the past as well - with a FOR
command, using \ as a delimeter.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Carl Houseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Questions about scripting are not OT here, they are frequent.
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> set abc=\\servername\users\username
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> for /f "delims=\ tokens=1" %%f in ("%abc%") do echo %%f
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> Carl
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 10:16 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: CMD scripting question
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> Pardon the OT question; if there's a better place to ask, please direct me.
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> So here's my problem .. I have this CMD shell script (not VBScript or
> PowerShell), and what I need to do is some string manipulation.
> Specifically:
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> I need to strip off the leading 2 characters from a string, and then I need
> to locate the position of a special character in the string. So I have this
> value:
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> \\servername\users\username
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> What I want to do is to isolate "servername". I can strip off the leading 2
> backslashes by:
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> _HomeFolder="\\servername\users\username" (actually, I read this value from
> a file)
> SET _Offset=2
> SET _Chars=11
> _Server=!_HomeFolder:~%_Offset%,%_Chars%!
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> 1. I'm having problems storing the value of this substr. I'm not getting
> "servername\users\username". Not sure why; I can use that fragment in an IF
> statement, and it works.
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> 2. I found a little utility that will return the position of one string in
> another, which I should be able to use to do another substr to isolate the
> servername. I'd still need to store it someplace (see problem #1)
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> Rewriting the script as VBSript or PowerShell isn't really an option yet, as
> I am not proficient enough in those to do this.
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> So what I need to do is parse the string, and return everything from
> position 3 to the location of the first "\".
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> So any clues, pointers, semi-vitrolic abuse appreciated. Better ways, other
> utilities, other examples, etc.
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