What is the best way to extract a substring within a longer string?

[goodywp]

Hi all,

I just got a new task. It is to extract a substring within the longer string. Here is the example,

"Schemes are embedded as those scheme packs as <T501-08815-0103> in 'Schemes to Sign_for_829501.doc'"

The task is to get substring T501-08815-0103

the variation is this < > can be two as <T501-08815-0103, T501-08715-0103>

so in this case the task is to get substring T501-08815-0103, T501-08715-0103

we can tailed the format to make easier to extract substring, like this case using < >, it can be any as long as it is helpful to extract the substring...

Thanks

[Squashman]

FOR /F command and use the DELIMS option. Use the <> as the delimiters.
You were shown how to use the TOKENS and DELIMS options in this post.

[goodywp]

FOR /F command and use the DELIMS option. Use the <> as the delimiters.
You were shown how to use the TOKENS and DELIMS options in this post.

Thank you and get what wanted:

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FOR /F "tokens=2,3 delims=<>" %%A IN (scheme_source.txt) DO @echo %%A>>scheme_target.txt