Solve : DOS Batch File text processing query?

1.	Solve : DOS Batch File text processing query?
Answer» Can anyone tell me how to extract some information contained in a text file called dircount.txt and place it in an environment variable ? I want to be able to extract the number 5 from the text file contents as shown below. I want to do this using DOS batch files. The file contents of dircount.txt is as follows; ---------- DIRLIST.TXT: 5 This is OS dependent. The easiest WAY is to parse the line by reading it and defining the parsing template with the for /f instruction. If your OS does not support the /f switch you may be SOL. Hope this helps. Hmm THANKS I was wondering about that command. I'm using Windows 98 - DOS It does seem to support the command, but UNFORTUNATELY not the /f parameter :/ cheers check out what it has though, sometimes you will find that under different versions there is different parts to it that accomplish the same thing, such as instead of /f it MIGHT be something else... (annoying but TRUE)

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