I have a text file that contains a string like this:

C00000000940000000001SWT18A1101000

What I need to do is from within a batch file, read in the contents of the file and then get the value at a certain position like the character at position 15. I've been searching and searching and I can't find any examples and I'm a rookie at this stuff.

Thanks in advance for any help!

If i's XP [not DOS]:

::==
@echo off
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion

set /p var=<my.txt
set var=!var:~14,1!
echo char 15 is !var!
::==

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