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|    Tom Del Rosso to Herbert Kleebauer    |
|    Re: Poison characters in substring subst    |
|    17 Jul 17 02:45:14    |
      From: fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com              Herbert Kleebauer wrote:       > On 16.07.2017 21:02, Tom Del Rosso wrote:       >       >>>> Trying to change "%20" in a url into a space.       >       >> I prefer not to use delayed       >> expansion, if possible, because then ! is a poison character too.       >> There should be a way to do it with CALL.       >       > I don't think there is an easy way to do this. If in the       > url there is no other % than in %20 and there is a character       > not used in the url (e.g. $), then this should work:       >       > @echo off       > set url=xxx%%20yyy       > set url       >       > call :sub $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9       > set url       >       > goto :eof       >       >> sub       > call set url=%url%       > set url=%url:$20= %              That's great. Picking a character that isn't used is easy because the       only colon is after http and I can remove it.              Thanks.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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