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Asked: 2026-06-19T03:20:07+00:00

I want to see if a string contains another string where both strings are

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I want to see if a string contains another string where both strings are variables. Basically it is that same as this thread but with two variables. Taking that solution and applying it to my situation with !VAR1! and !VAR2! (these variables are declared within the FOR loop) I tried:

if not x!VAR1:!VAR2!=!==x!VAR1! ECHO It contains !VAR2!

Unfortunately it doesn’t work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have also declared SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion so I can access the variables.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    As Aacini and rojo have shown, you must use a different expansion for the two variables, normal inside, and delayed outside.

    But perhaps you are running the IF within the same code block that sets the variable. Now you can’t use normal expansion. The solution is to transfer the inner variable to a FOR variable.

    (
  :: Some code that sets the value of var2 
  ::
  for /f "delims=" %%A in ("!var2!") do if "!var1:%%A=!" neq "!var1!" echo It contains %%A
)
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