Question

I’ve got the following code, but when it is executed there are problems with the quotes: the substring methods need to use :=”, but I don’t know how to combine them with for example :~0,9.

SETLOCAL enabledelayedexpansion

set var=%1

if %var:~0,9%=="phpfile:/" (
    set url = %var:~9% 
) else (
    set url = %var:~10%
)

if "%var:~-1%"=="\" (
    set url = %url:~0,-1%"
)
if "%var:~-1%"=="/" (
    set url = %url:~0,-1%"
)

START "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\NuSphere\PhpED\7.0\phped.exe" %url:"=%

Answer 1

There are some syntax bugs in your code.

Don’t add spaces in SET statements, else you got variable names with spaces url<space> instead of url.

The if %var:~0,9%=="phpfile:/" ( must be quoted, else the parser will not work as expected.

The trailing quote at set url = %url:~0,-1%" will add a quote at the end, I suppose you need something like set "url=%url:~0,-1%"

set "var=%~1"

if "%var:~0,9%"=="phpfile:/" (
    set "url=%var:~9%"
) else (
    set "url=%var:~10%"
)

if "%var:~-1%"=="\" (
    set "url=%url:~0,-1%"
)
if "%var:~-1%"=="/" (
    set "url=%url:~0,-1%"
)