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Get last 4 character from a file

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Hi Guys, I'm a newbie to batch programming. I had created a batch file to read a line from a text file. example: Hello world 1234 However i would like to pass the last 4 characters to a variable. Any help is greatly appreciated

Name: IVO
Date: August 11, 2009 at 06:26:01 Pacific

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If the text file holds ONE line only, the following script does the job @echo off & setlocal set /P myvar=< "MyFile.txt" set myvar=%myvar:~-4% echo.%myvar% :: End_Of_Batch If however the file holds multiple lines, a For /F loop is needed and the line identified in some way.

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Thanks IVO, that works for me.

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