Hi, if I run the following code: @echo off FOR /F "tokens=3* delims= " %%A IN ('REG QUERY "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "DAEMON Tools"') DO set string=%%B echo %string% I get this string: "C:\Program Files\Daemon Tools\daemon.exe" -lang 1033 how do I extract the following parts from that string? 1) "C:\Program Files\Daemon Tools\daemon.exe" 2) "C:\Program Files\Daemon Tools" thx!

You let the parser do the work for you. @echo off FOR /F "tokens=3* delims= " %%A IN ('REG QUERY "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "DAEMON Tools"') DO CALL :parse %%B echo %string% GOTO :EOF :parse set string=%~1 set string2=%~dp1

for those who already read what I just posted here, nevermind, Razor2.3 is right, th following script gets me what I wanted: @echo off FOR /F "tokens=3* delims= " %%A IN ('REG QUERY "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "DAEMON Tools"') DO CALL :parse %%B echo %string% echo %string2% pause GOTO :EOF :parse set string=%~1 set string2=%~dp1 thx for your help! note that the delimiter gets screwed up when posting this code, it's supposed to be "tab-space", without the hyphen and the quotes of course... computing.net removes the tab, so if you just copy and paste it, it will not work ;-)