set variable?

[5OEMC]

mykey.reg

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\MyKey\1]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\MyKey\2]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\MyKey\3]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\MyKey\4]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\MyKey\5]

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for /f "tokens=1 delims=[-]" %%G in (mykey.reg) do reg query %%G /ve 2> nul | find "HKEY"

Question: Is it possible to set the output as a variable to allow further processing registry key if it was found?

[aGerman]

Your list contains 5 keys. That means you may get 5 positives or even 0 if none were found. Your best bet is to execute the result in a second FOR /F loop in order to work with the FOR Variable directly.

Steffen

[5OEMC]

Yep, thanks. Now I see that my attempt using variable outside loop was just very dumb thing