I have a ini file containing the following information. [Meter1] variable_1=Hello variable_2=World variable_3=Goodbye Is there a way to extract the value of the fist variable (Hello), and save the the entire file as "Hello.txt"?

:: extract value of first ver in my.ini and rename ini :: exthello Sat 09-05-2009 12:59:36.85 @echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('find "variable" ^< my.ini') do ( if not defined new set new=%%a ) echo ren my.ini !new!.txt ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Thanks a lot! This works good for when the variable is just one word. I cant seem to figure out how to properly rename a file if the variable is equal to two words with a space.

Nevermind, I got it. Thanks for your help!

@echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('find "variable" ^< my.ini') do ( if not defined new set new=%%a ) echo ren my.ini "!new!.txt" ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

if you find yourself parsing ini files often (or not) , its ok to use an ini parser, such as those from Perl, or Python (and others) an eg done with Python import ConfigParser config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() config.read("file") for section in config.sections(): if section == "Meter1": if "variable_1" in config.options(section): print config.get(section, "variable_1") output: c:\test> more file [Meter1] variable_1=Hello world variable_2=World variable_3=Goodbye c:\test> python test.py Hello world