How to search a string for a literal character

[Streamrunner]

Hello, all, I have done some batch scripting with cmd.exe in the past, but have some new challenges.

Is there a way to find whether a certain character appears in a string?

Say I'm prompting for a single-word string (no need for special characters) using

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SET /P someword=Enter a word: 

What next?

[ShadowThief]

Personally, I'd use that string as a delimiter in a for /F loop and see if the second token had a value. It's even case sensitive.

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set "string=My fellow Americans"
for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=F" %%A in ("%string%") do if not "%%B"=="" echo F is present.

Note that if you're checking to see if % is present, you need to have %% in both the string and delims section.

[Compo]

@ShadowThief, your code above doesn't work if searching for s instead of F

…perhaps:

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IF /I NOT "%someword%"=="%someword:F=%" ECHO=F is present