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Hi everyone


I have a file db.txt and it's something like this:
---------start of db.txt
'a'=b
'b'=c
'c'=d
---------end of db.txt

What I want the batch to do is to find a user provided letter (a, b or c) and copy the letter that's next to the "=".

I already know how to find words or letters in a file:

But I don't know how to make the batch copy the letter that's next to the = symbol.

Thanks for reading and please help

Untested:

Copy where ?!
BTW, add a

pause

after Foxidrive code to see the result.

abc0502 wrote:Copy where ?!
BTW, add a

pause

after Foxidrive code to see the result.

Forgot to mention that, copying into a variable like foxdrive did.
There's realy no need for a pause, you can run it the console.

foxidrive wrote:Untested:

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@echo off
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('FINDSTR /C:"'a'" db.txt') do echo %%a

Untested ??
You managed to code a working codeblock without testing it, dude that's some awesome skills

Anyways I tested it and it works perfecly, thanks


Thanks again to everyone for replaying