Re: Finding Characters only in string of lines

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Thanks,

John
"Jerold Schulman" <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:21:10 -0700, "John"
<John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >I current have a batch script that executes a shell command which stdout
to
> >the Windows shell a string of characters.
> >
> >I capture the string of characters into a variable then write it into a
text
> >file.
> >
> >I would like to only capturer only a few characters that's in the
variable.
> >
> >Example would be anything that starts with # and ends in '
> >
> >In a nutshell I want to capture a number that is in the stdout of the
> >command.
> >
> >This number always increments as the script runs.
> >
> ># '243'
>
>
> @echo off
> setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
> For /F "Tokens=*" %%a in ('YourCommand^|findstr /B /L /C:"# '"^|findstr /E
/L /C:"'"') do (
> set work=%%a
> set /a number=!work:~3,3!
> @echo !number!
> )
> endlocal


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