Finding Words in a File and Copying Strings

[Ranguna173]

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:

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FINDSTR /C:"('a', 'b' or 'c')" db.txt > nul

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

[foxidrive]

Untested:

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

[abc0502]

Copy where ?!
BTW, add a

pause

after Foxidrive code to see the result.

[Ranguna173]

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.

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