findstr on regquery command

[stonysleep]

i'm trying to save the output of a findstr of a registry query command into a variable within a batch file so i can do some calculations but I always have problems with for /F loops and it doesn't seem to like the way i'm doing it.

the command i'm trying to run which works is:

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reg query HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Security | findstr /i level

i want to put the output of this into a variable so i can test it and then proceed executing other commands.

Did some googling and tried to adapt other examples and came up with this which doesn't work:

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for /F "delims=" %%a in ('reg query HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Security | findstr /i level') do set var=%%a

Any help much appreciated

[!k]

You must use ^|

[stonysleep]

like this?

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for /F "delims=" %%a in ('reg query HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Security ^| findstr /i level') do set var=%%a