From: jj4public@outlook.com   
      
   On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 03:58:34 -0700 (PDT), Adam Lubszczyk wrote:   
   > ¶roda, 12 kwietnia 2023 o 12:24:35 UTC+2 John Stockton napisa³(a):   
   >> On Wednesday, 12 April 2023 at 02:50:14 UTC+1, JJ wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:16:54 -0700 (PDT), John Stockton wrote:   
   >>> >   
   >>> > But it must be nicer to do it in pure Batch - how?   
   >>> Are those character code numbers in hexadecimal or in decimal?   
   >> They are decimal, but not character code. That means from the 20th   
   character to the 29th character (there is a "W", 2 "-", and 7 digits).   
   >>> > I can set an environment variable YWD to characters 20-29 of a one-line   
   >>> > file, ending CRLF, using an ancient utility COLS, written by me.   
   >> My COLS is a fairly simple stream editor, reading lines from Standard   
   Input, processing each in turn, and writing them to Standard Output. Its   
   arguments include strings and position indication.   
   >> So I just use it to edit the input line to a SET YWD=?????????? line,   
   redirect the output to a new file, call that file, and delete it.   
   >>   
   >> COLS was written in 16-bit Borland Pascal, probably version 7, last edited   
   & compiled 2005-10-29, and recompiled in Delphi 3 on 2009-02-10 to get the   
   current 32-bit EXE file.   
   >> --   
   >> (c) John Stockton, near London, UK. Using Google Groups. |   
   >   
   > @ECHO OFF   
   > FOR /F "tokens=*" %%a IN (file_name.txt) Do CALL :label1 "%%a"   
   > EXIT   
   >   
   >:label1   
   > REM  ~ delete "   
   > SET YWD=%~1   
   > REM Substr 9 chars begin 20 (offset 19)   
   > SET YWD=%YWD:~19,9%   
   > ECHO %YWD%   
   > REM ...   
   > GOTO :EOF   
   >   
   > Adam   
      
   Characters 20-29 is inclusive. Meaning that, 10 characters are extracted. So   
   it should be:   
      
   SET YWD=%YWD:~19,10%   
      
   FYI, shorter version of the code:   
      
   @ECHO OFF   
   SETLOCAL   
   SET YWD=   
   FOR /F "usebackq tokens=*" %%a IN ("file name.txt") do set "YWD=%%a"   
   SET "YWD=%YWD:~19,10%"   
   ECHO %YWD%   
      
   Use of `backq` option is recommended to allow parsing file whose name   
   contains space or special character.   
      
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