Hi, I am new to Windows batch programming. I have a requirement of extracting a string data from a line. I have a file let say (doctype.txt) containing the following values in separate lines. VESPRO/B CHPOI13A/B CHSAE01A/F SAEHO01/F CHPPOI06/B I want to get the String data before the forward slash (/) into a variable one by one. Like: VESPRO, CHPOI13A etc... Please help me to resolve the above requirement? Thanks in Advance. Deviprasad

@ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION set csvar= for /f "tokens=1 delims=/" %%a in (doctype.txt) do set csvar=!csvar!%%a, echo %csvar% endlocal pause Just bear in mind there is a variable string length limit, and this sort of thing can max it out. The below are taken from this page "The maximum individual environment variable size is 8192bytes. The maximum total environment variable size for all variables, which includes variable names and the equal sign, is 65,536KB." It is possibly to direct the output to file to circumvent this limit, but you asked for variables so I can only assume these files aren't too large.

@echo off & setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion type nul > filename.txt for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%A in (doctype.txt) do ( set line=%%A set line=!line:~0,-2! echo.!line!>> temp.txt) start temp.txt

Ok, I think I read wrong, my result will give you: VESPRO CHPOI13A CHSAE01A SAEHO01 CHPPOI06 and not: VESPRO,CHPOI13A,CHSAE01A,SAEHO01,CHPPOI06

I think deviprasad wants var1=VESPRO var2=CHOPI13a var3=... etc. In that case, @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set varcount=1 for /f "tokens=1 delims=/" %%a in (doctype.txt) do ( set var!varcount!=%%a :Uncomment below line if you want the variables outside the batch file. :echo set var!varcount!=%%a >> setvarslater.bat set /a varcount+=1 ) -- Holla.

Sorry!!!! Enjoy your weekend guys!

Hi All, Thanks for all your suggestion. I tried the way suggested by Lee and got the solution to my problem. I have done the below: for /f %%a in (docType.txt) do ( call :CreateScript %%a ) :CreateScript set fn=%1 set docType=%fn:~0,-2% Thanks for all your support. Deviprasad