Question

I have searched this across the net and found many codes for retrieving the entire line from a text or replacing the text with another but not for what i was looking for.

Using the For loop with the tokens would return on the set (word) separated with spaces.

I want to pull only a few characters from the line.

Eg: 12345qwerty67890

If this on in a text file i want to pull only ‘12345’ and assign it to a variable.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

set HELP SET and try the following to get you started

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (sample.txt) do (
  set line=%%a
  set chars=!line:~0,5!
  echo !chars! --- !line!
)