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O.P. Little help with batch programming
This is my code:
code:
@echo off
FOR /f "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /b') DO (
    [my actions, no problem here]
)

It does my actions for each file in the bat file's folder.
The problem is, one of the arguments I need is the file's name without the extension. For example:
%%G is "My text file.txt" and I need to use the command -set name="My text file" .
So I changed -set name="%%G" to -set name="%%G:~0,-4%", which should ignore the last 4 characters (dot + extension), but it doesn't work.

Does anyone know how to solve this?
02-03-2010 06:46 PM
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RE: Little help with batch programming
code:
FOR /f "delims=" %%G IN ('dir /b') DO (
echo %%~nG
echo MY NAME IS SONICSAM AND I ROCK
echo %%~nG >> poop.txt
)
Notice the ~n, it removes the file extenson

There should be no need to set it to something else with this code, and I am not even sure setting it inside ()'s will even work...but the %%~n will allow you to do whatever you wanted with the original code.

This post was edited on 02-03-2010 at 09:39 PM by prashker.
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RE: Little help with batch programming
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Originally posted by SonicSam
I don't remember { } brackets working
I don't see any anywhere :P.
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Originally posted by SonicSam
I don't remember { } brackets working
I don't see any anywhere :P.
Odd, my eyes deceived me. Edited post.
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Just perfect. Thanks.
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