Question

I’m tryin to make a simple command to strip everything after a word, and echo the result.

Example:

street-ct-2a21340565364563563
thiswouldbedifferent-ss-3c63456345645635634
andthiscouldbesomethingelse-we-5d23453453634563456

removing everything expect the first section

Something like:

street-ct-221340565364563563

would result in:

street

This isn’t being saved in a txt file or anything, is it possible?

Answer 1

Edit: Assuming that the part you are trying to extract has variable length, this seems to be an even better solution:

set str=street-ct-2a21340565364563563
for /f "delims=-" %%a in ("%str%") do set part=%%a
echo.%part%

In that snippet, we split the string whenever a “-” occurs, and then assign the first part of the split string to the “part” variable. Additional examples on how to use for to split strings can be found here.

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According to this reference you could do something like this:

set str=street-ct-2a21340565364563563
set substr=%str:~0,6%
echo.%substr%