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Need help with WinXP batch script

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Name: The_Gambler
Date: August 9, 2005 at 23:31:02 Pacific
Subject: Need help with WinXP batch script
OS: Win XP Professional
CPU/Ram: All

Comment:

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

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Response Number 1

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: August 10, 2005 at 01:20:56 Pacific
Subject: Need help with WinXP batch script

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%username:~0,3%
M2

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

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Response Number 2

Name: The_Gambler
Date: August 10, 2005 at 02:54:14 Pacific
Subject: Need help with WinXP batch script

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

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Response Number 3

Name: borelli35
Date: August 11, 2005 at 18:08:03 Pacific
Subject: Need help with WinXP batch script

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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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