For /f Need help

[jestes1013]

I have

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@ECHO OFF
for /f "skip=2 delims=" %%a in ('
    reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server"
') do (
    for /f "skip=4 tokens=2,* delims=   " %%b in ('
        2^>nul reg query "%%a" /v "InstalledInstances"
    ') do (
        if not errorlevel 1 (
            Echo %%c
        )
    )
)
Pause

Which produces:
ALLDATASC\0SQLEXPRESS\0\0

I am trying to get:
ALLDATASC
SQLEXPRESS
...and so on.

[avery_larry]

Can't test very well since those keys don't exist on my machine, but you want to use a \ as a delimiter in the 2nd for loop, possibly instead of a space, or in addition to. You may also want more tokens:

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@ECHO OFF 
for /f "skip=2 delims=" %%a in (' 
    reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server" 
') do ( 
    for /f "skip=4 tokens=2-5 delims=\" %%b in (' 
        2^>nul reg query "%%a" /v "InstalledInstances" 
    ') do ( 
        if not errorlevel 1 ( 
            Echo %%c
            Echo %%d
            Echo %%e
        ) 
    ) 
) 
Pause