Open a webpage with a Batch program

[THR]

I'm building something similar to the CMD program. I want to add a command to open a webpage.
something like: start_web:google.com. My program needs to recognize the start_web: command and than open google.com or some other webpage. Is there any way how to separate start_web: and google.com?
I don't want my program to scan for every webpage out there...

This is what I got:
@Echo off
Echo.
Set /p command= com>
If command== start_web:(a website) <- This were I'm stuck
start (a website)
Exit

(I'm not a professional programmer, I learned everything on the web)

[Squashman]

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for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=:" %%G IN ("%command%") DO set website=%%H

[miskox]

All you need is something like this:

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"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" www.google.com

This will start Internet Explorer and open http://www.google.com

Or in a batch (first parameter is a web's URL):

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@echo off
if "%1"=="" goto :EOF
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" %1

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c:\OpenURL.cmd www.google.com

Saso

[THR]

Thanks Squashman, Your code helped me a lot. This is the result:

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@Echo off
Color 02
:Start
CLS
Set /p command= com:
If %command%== stop Exit
Set Search=start_web:
Set command|findstr /b "command="|findstr /i %Search% >nul
If Errorlevel 1 (goto Fail) Else (goto Web)
:Fail
Echo.
Echo Please try again.
Pause
Goto start
:Web
For /F "tokens=1,2 delims=:" %%G In ("%command%") Do Set website=%%H
Start "" "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" "https://www.%website%"
Goto start

[thefeduke]

Here's some code that I distilled from a desktop shortcut created from my browser. These two statements seem to be the minimum to open an URL.

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    echo.[InternetShortcut] >"%temp%\DOSTips.URL"
    echo.URL=http://www.dostips.com/ >>"%temp%\DOSTips.URL"
    "%temp%\DOSTips.URL"

This approach allows the system to open the .URL file extension with the default browser, so in theory, there is no need to specify explorers, chromes or other browsers. I only tested it with Firefox. I hope that this is of use.

John