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find and remove character in a bat file
Name: scrfix Date: May 2, 2009 at 18:18:05 Pacific OS: Windows XP and Vista Subcategory: Batch
Comment:
I am trying just to return the drive letter from the %systemdrive% variable. Since the variable returns C: for the most part I would like to remove the : and just have the C for the bat file. I would like this to work on both Vista and XP from a batch file. Any ideas how I can accomplish this?
I know I can use findstr /C:: to find the character however I am not sure how to remove the character from there.
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