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Need help with WinXP batch script

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Need help with this: I shall write a "pre-installer" which will select the package to be installed. To do so it shall fetch the username and according to the first three letters of the username select the package. Now what I got is the username selected on the command prompt by using "%USERNAME%" which works pretty fine. But now I can't find a way to only take the first three letters to use it in a "if - else" construct. Can anybody help me out with this? Regards, The_Gambler

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: August 10, 2005 at 01:20:56 Pacific

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%username:~0,3% M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

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Thank you very much! This works really nice... ;-)

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Name: borelli35
Date: August 11, 2005 at 18:08:03 Pacific

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M2!....!Nice! I did not know you could do that and thus have met my 'learn something new every day' quota...thank you! John W. Borelli IT Specialist Hawkeye Security Link to my email address

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