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That I am here posting to DosTips. But I'm doing it, so there must be a reason, right? What gives me pause is that this place is still here. I'm all about "getting it done" and moving on, but wtf? Is it done? The creativity here is astounding. I think I know where to go with that, but I'm not good a...

penpen wrote: "Another option is to use string replacement within environment variables." That looked promising, but as the element number is likely to come from a variable and not a literal, that technique doesn't work. (That detail was not in the OP, because I was just pondering the situation, but...

The macroization attempt, though, does introduce the problem. The macroization was, of course, done to avoid the overhead of a function call (which would have been a nice little snippet if it would have worked!). Thanks for your explanation.

set get_element=^ for /l %%N in (1 1 2) do if %%N equ 2 (^ for /f "tokens=1-3 delims= " %%A in ("^!args^!") do (^ for /f "tokens=%%B delims=," %%X in (^!%%A^!) do (^ set "%%C=%%X"^ )^ )^ ) else set args= set lst="one,two,three" %get_element% lst 2 el echo,el: [%el%] Output: %B delims=," was unexpec...