Dear Mister Jones

One of my friends, Andrew from Vancouver, sent me this extremely useful tip about how to grab a sub-string via BATCH.
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here’s a CMD shell tip that works in W2K, WXP, and W2K3.

There is a BASIC MIDSTR function equivalent in batch files… use this syntax as a modifer:

~:start,end

e.g.

set foo=\\servername
@echo unretouched [%foo%]
@echo modified [%foo:~2,99%]

will output:

unretouched [\\servername]
modified [...]

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