Removing & from string

[gmh]

I used FINDSTR in a FOR loop to pull out a specific string. The string contains an & in it. I am trying to remove it. I tried set q=%q:^&=% and it did not work. Any ideas?

[DosItHelp]

gmh,

Use quotes around the assignment. Btw. it never hurts to use quotes.

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set "q=%q:&=%"

DosItHelp?

[gmh]

He is an example of the actual string....

(doc NAME\ &\ NAME2\ NAME3)

If the & was not in the string I have other statements to remove the "(",")", and "\", but with the "&" it messes everything up.

[greenfinch]

Quotes won't help (or hinder) here - you need setlocal enabledelayedexpansion:

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setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set q=this^&that
echo %q%
set q=!q:^&=or!
echo %q%

[DosItHelp]

Quotes work fine on XP:

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@echo off
set "q=this&that"
echo."%q%"
set "q=%q:&=%"
echo. %q%


@echo off
set "q=(doc NAME\ &\ NAME2\ NAME3)"
echo."%q%"
set "q=%q:&=%"
set "q=%q:(=%"
set "q=%q:)=%"
set "q=%q:\=%"
echo. %q%

Output:

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"this&that"
 thisthat

"(doc NAME\ &\ NAME2\ NAME3)"
 doc NAME  NAME2 NAME3