Question

Say I have a string such as foo:bar:baz, is it possible to loop through this string? It looked like you could tokenize lines of a file but the following will only echo ‘foo’ once.

for /f "tokens=1,2* delims=:" %%x in ("%%j") do echo %%x

Answer 1

set string=foo:bar:baz
for %%x in (%string::= %) do echo %%x

FOR value delimiters may be space, comma, semicolon and equal-sign. You may directly process a string if the elements are delimited with any of these characters. If not, just change the delimiter for one of these character (as I did above).

set string=foo bar,baz;one=two
for %%x in (%string%) do echo %%x