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Thank you avery_larry. You came up with a 100% fix for me.
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that just results in: "ECHO is off."

The above example works of: @ECHO OFF setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=()" %%a IN ('"%~dp0devcon.exe find =ports *VID_10C4^&PID_EA60*"') DO ( echo comnumber=%%a ) pause However, I cannot use comnumber variable anywhere else outside the loop. It returns ...

I'm trying to use devcon.exe to output command information into this batch file. Once this is accompished I try to split the data it gives me using "(" delimiter and I would like to further split it so that I can get the information behind this character ")" but my variable wants...