Question

I have the following thing in my bat file. say

set path=c:\temp\test

so basically i want to have an output which would give me the result as c:\temp\

i didnt find any indexof equivalent in bat command.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Background:

>set fullname=c:\mypath\oldfile
>set changedname=%fullname:oldfile=newfile%
>echo %changedname%
c:\mypath\newfile

Applied to problem:

> set fullname=c:\mypath\oldfile
> set pathonly=%fullname:oldfile=%
> echo %pathonly%
c:\mypath\