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Hi,
i know white spaces are used as string delimiters, but how to avoid the last byte in environment variable equal to space?
Ex.:

ECHO ON & SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion & SETLOCAL EnableExtensions

FOR /F "delims= " %%G in ('DIR /S /B ^| FINDSTR ".ex1 .ex2 .ex3 .ex4"') DO (
SET TT=%%G & SET TT=!TT:~0,-4! & ECHO.%%Gs!TT!.EXTe
)
EXIT /B

gives always [file.ex_]s[filename] .EXTe

Notice that TT=!TT:~0,-4! is same as TT=%%~nG

Thank you

It is very easy to banish those pesky unwanted spaces by using quotes! Note how the opening quote is before the variable name.


It is an interesting trick that not just spaces are ignored after the ending quote:

But you probably don't want to get in the habit of doing something like the above.

Dave Benham