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Name: bismarkcount
Date: August 8, 2007 at 14:39:39 Pacific
OS: windows xp
CPU/Ram: intel c2d
Product: dell
Comment:

hi!!!

could you please help me in this??

i have a ";" delimited text like this:

name1@mail.com;name2@mail.com;name3@mail.com

i want to extract the first email (before the first separator) into a variable.

i guess it is simple, but i am new at DOS bat programming.

thnx for your help



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Name: Razor2.3
Date: August 8, 2007 at 14:51:15 Pacific
Reply:

FOR /F "delims=;" %a IN ("name1@mail.com;name2@mail.com;name3@mail.com") DO @ECHO %a


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Response Number 2
Name: bismarkcount
Date: August 8, 2007 at 15:00:07 Pacific
Reply:

that doesnt seem to work for me razor... it shows me an error saying:

a was unexpected at this time

d u know if it might be because of my operating system?? i am running on WinXP


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Response Number 3
Name: bismarkcount
Date: August 8, 2007 at 15:05:17 Pacific
Reply:

ohh, thnx i have solved... it was just %%a instead of %a

thnx razor!!!
have a good day!


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Response Number 4
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: August 8, 2007 at 15:10:55 Pacific
Reply:

Razor2.3's code worls at the prompt. To use it in a BAT, use double %.

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FOR /F "delims=;" %%a IN ("name1@mail.com;name2@mail.com;name3@mail.com") DO @ECHO %%a


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