For Loop.. delims

[ldoodle]

Hey,

Can you specify complete phrases, including spaces as a delimiter?

This is what I'm trying to achieve. 2 options. Option 1 works, option 2 doesn't because of the spaces in the delimiter phrase.

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@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

for /f "delims=" %%x in ('mkvinfo.exe "c:\temp\mkv\folder 5\Jellyfish-3-Mbps - Copy (2).mkv" ^| findstr /i "Title"') do (
   set var1=%%x
   set var1=!var1:^| + Title: =!
   echo !var1!
)

for /f "delims=^| + Title: " %%x in ('mkvinfo.exe "c:\temp\mkv\folder 5\Jellyfish-3-Mbps - Copy (2).mkv" ^| findstr /i "Title"') do (
   echo %%x
)

Basically the output from mkvinfo is this:

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| + Title: Jellyfish-3-Mbps: Copy (2)

I need to get the bit after the first colon (so lose '| + Title: '), so in this case Jellyfish-3-Mbps: Copy (2). I can't use colon as a delimiter because it breaks on the colon actually in the file. Plus, some files may contain multiple colons, so I can't use %%x and %%y.

What's the best way?

Thanks!

[ldoodle]

Ideally you could just delim at the first occurrence, so the first colon after title, then anything before is token 1 and anything after is token 2.

Can you do that?

[foxidrive]

It helps if you explain what you want to do rather than giving code which isn't functional.

[ShadowThief]

Use the tokens option with the * value to split the string on the first colon and then include later colons in the second token.

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for /F "tokens=1,* delims=:" %%x in ('mkvinfo.exe "c:\temp\mkv\folder 5\Jellyfish-3-Mbps - Copy (2).mkv" ^| findstr /i "Title"') do set title=%%y

[foxidrive]

Basically the output from mkvinfo is this:

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| + Title: Jellyfish-3-Mbps: Copy (2)

Plus, some files may contain multiple colons

What do you see when there are multiple colons?

[ShadowThief]

Also, it's worth noting that file names in Windows cannot include colons, so unless you're pulling these from a Linux machine, you really have nothing to worry about there.

[ldoodle]

Use the tokens option with the * value to split the string on the first colon and then include later colons in the second token.

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for /F "tokens=1,* delims=:" %%x in ('mkvinfo.exe "c:\temp\mkv\folder 5\Jellyfish-3-Mbps - Copy (2).mkv" ^| findstr /i "Title"') do set title=%%y

Thanks, that helped a lot

[ldoodle]

Also, it's worth noting that file names in Windows cannot include colons, so unless you're pulling these from a Linux machine, you really have nothing to worry about there.

Yeah, sorry. I didn't mean in the filename. Title is a meta data property of MKV files.

[ldoodle]

Basically the output from mkvinfo is this:

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| + Title: Jellyfish-3-Mbps: Copy (2)

Plus, some files may contain multiple colons

What do you see when there are multiple colons?

In this case it would be just 'Jellyfish-3-Mbps', so between the 2 colons.