Re: Extracting last Folder Name from complete path

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From: andreas kässens (andreas.kaessens_at_simul.de)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:34:46 +0100

"Michael Bednarek" wrote

> Using 4NT/4DOS, I do this frequently thus:
> ECHO %@WORD["\",-0,C:\temp\ExtendedDB]
>
> 4NT is a commercial product, 4DOS is free

Thanks a lot for your answer! But I have to use the standard Windows xp
commands, which do not have such function. So I tried the following batch:

@echo off
set pfad=D:\Arbeit\PROJEKTE\ATARI 2
for /f "delims=\ tokens=4" %%a in ("@echo %pfad%") do @echo %%a

Unfortunately there seems to be no way to address the last token in general
("tokens=-1" does not work). The only way I can think of, is another for
loop, which counts the "\" in the variing path and replace it with the
tokens value.

This seems to be far too much effort for such a simple task, doesn't it?

Andreas

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