About Finding Batch Labels using FINDSTR

[Meerkat]

Hi again guys!

Assuming the quirky rules from http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3803 are not in my batch file (Only whitespaces are present), how can I detect batch labels using FINDSTR?

For instance, (Sample.bat)

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::Intro comments
::Blablabla
::Yeah!!!
::Blablabla

@echo off
   ::Comment again
   goto :main

   ::Some codes here...

   :main
   ::Some code here
   echo This is some piece of code...

   :thisisalabel
   ::this is a comment...
pause
exit /b

From my young intuition, I tried to use this FINDSTR command:

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>findstr /r ":[^:][^:]*" Sample.bat

I expect that only :main and :thisisalabel will appear, but the output became:

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::Some comments
::Blablabla
::Yeah
::Blablabla
        ::Comment again
        goto :main
        ::Some codes here...
        :main
        ::Some code here
        :thisisalabel
        ::this is a comment...

What is wrong with my FINDSTR? Thanks a lot guys!

Meerkat

[Aacini]

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> findstr /R /C:"^ *:[^:]" Sample.bat
   :main
   :thisisalabel
 

Antonio