Question

I tried everything possible, but still failed. I thought I got it at the point which I’ll post
as my final attempt, but still isn’t good [enough].

A script is being passed three arguments. Domain name, username and password.
But the probles is that I need domain separated in ‘domain’ + ‘.com’ format. Two variables.
I tried to split it using name.extension cheat, but it doesn’t work quite well.

Check the simple code:

@echo off echo. set domain=%~n1 set ext=%~x1 echo %DOMAIN% echo %EXT% echo. 

When you try it, you get:

D:\Scripts\test>test.bat domain.com  domain .com  D:\Scripts\test>test.bat domain.co.uk  domain.co .uk 

First obviously does work, but only because I’m able to cheat my way through.
String operations in DOS Shell are a pain in the ass. I might be able to convince
a script writer to pass me 4 arguments instead of 3… but in case that fails… HELP!

Answer 1

Windows ships with the Windows Scripting Host which lets you run javascript.

Change the batch file to:

@echo off cscript //Nologo test.js %* 

Create test.js:

if (WScript.Arguments.Length > 0) {     var arg = WScript.Arguments.Item(0);     var index = arg.indexOf('.');     if (index != -1) {         var domain = arg.substring(0, index);         var ext = arg.substring(index);         WScript.Echo(domain);         WScript.Echo(ext);     } else WScript.Echo('Error: Argument has no dots: ' + arg); } else WScript.Echo('Error: No argument given'); 

And you can use it:

C:\Documents and Settings\Waqas\Desktop>test.bat domain.com domain .com  C:\Documents and Settings\Waqas\Desktop>test.bat domain.co.uk domain .co.uk 

And that does what I think you wanted.