FINDSTR + literal strings/double quotes and DelayedExpansion

[Squashman]

(reading this, Squashman? ).

Reading your own threads was not the point I was making with my comment above.

[penpen]

I hope this stuff didn't keep you from sleeping?

Thanks, but you can be sure it won't.

Does this escape all known (to-be-escaped) characters or is there more to it?

There are more ('^'. '.', '\<', '\>' ), and i cheated with the dot ('.') character (actually accepts any character at the position the dot holds):
Should be escaped to '\.' (set "searchStringR%%a=!searchStringR%%a:.=\.!") when using regular expressions.

I also have tricked when escaping the asterisk ('*') to be able to replace it in strings easily.

But as i've written above it's just an example; it should only show how to escape a string when using findstr.
I'm even not sure if such an automation is really needed, as escaping is not that hard.

penpen

[Squashman]

I also have tricked when escaping the asterisk ('*') to be able to replace it in strings easily.

Hi Penpen,
Could you explain what you meant with this comment.

Thanks.

[penpen]

Whenever a search string shall contain a simple asterisk ('*'), i have used an asterisk preceeded by a circumflex accent ('^') instead;
then i can replace the asterisks easily by replacing "^*" instead, for example:

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@echo off
:: desired search string "1*2"
set "string=1^*2"
echo %string:^*=\*%

penpen