Hi,

I need a help in writing a small batch program(read.bat) in windows 2003 which reads a set of values from a file.

The OUTPUT of the file is below.

file: list.txt

Name    Path

A1         C:\
A2         D:\
A3         E:\
A4         F:\   

From the above output all the values under the column one "Name" , except the column name has to be set to a variable. this value is used in some other place in the script.

Please help me in writing the script.

Thanks in advance
Raghu A

Is this what you wanted? It displays:
A1
A2
A3
A4

This batch would be NICER if you would TAKE out the part with the Name and Path because I had to program it to skip that line. This one took me awhile. I didn't THINK this was possible in batch. This was made in XP 64-bit so don't know if it will work in 2003.

Code: [Select]echo off
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (B:\list.txt) do (
set /a N+=1
if !N! GTR 1 (
set /a I+=1
set tmpvar=%%a
set var!I!=!tmpvar:~0,2!
)
)

echo !var1!
echo !var2!
echo !var3!
echo !var4!
Quote from: Linux711 on July 16, 2009, 01:16:02 AM

Is this what you wanted? It displays:
A1
A2
A3
A4

This batch would be nicer if you would take out the part with the Name and Path because I had to program it to skip that line. This one took me awhile. I didn't think this was possible in batch. This was made in XP 64-bit so don't know if it will work in 2003.

Code: [Select]echo off
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (B:\list.txt) do (
set /a N+=1
if !N! GTR 1 (
set /a I+=1
set tmpvar=%%a
set var!I!=!tmpvar:~0,2!
)
)

echo !var1!
echo !var2!
echo !var3!
echo !var4!