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The batch processing appears to have problems with environment variables that start with a digit. I appended an underscore to the dynamic variables to overcome this problem: 
 
@echo off 
 
setlocal 
 
set sList=\\blade3c \\blade3d \\blade3f 
 
for /f &quot;tokens=*&quot; %%a in ('echo %sList%') do call :PROCESS %%a 
 
echo 3c %_3c% 
echo 3d %_3d% 
echo 3f %_3f% 
 
goto :EOF 
 
:PROCESS 
 
if &quot;%~1&quot;==&quot;&quot; goto :EOF 
 
set _t=%~1 
set _t=%_t:~-2% 
set _%_t%=%~1 
 
shift 
 
goto PROCESS 
 
Good Luck, 
Steve
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Experts- 
 
I currently have a list of items. For each, I want to dynamically create variables for each, and use just the suffix (trim off the \\blade prefix). 
 
&nbsp; &nbsp;SET SLIST=\\blade3c \\blade3d \\blade3f 
&nbsp; &nbsp;FOR %%s IN (%SLIST%) DO [...] 
 
I want to trim the string so I get three new variables, the same as if I did the following: 
SET 3c=\\blade3c 
SET 3d=\\blade3d 
SET 3f=\\blade3f 
 
How do I accomplish this? 
Thanks. 
 
 
 
 

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Experts-

I currently have a list of items. For each, I want to dynamically create variables for each, and use just the suffix (trim off the \\blade prefix).

   SET SLIST=\\blade3c \\blade3d \\blade3f
   FOR %%s IN (%SLIST%) DO [...]

I want to trim the string so I get three new variables, the same as if I did the following:
SET 3c=\\blade3c
SET 3d=\\blade3d
SET 3f=\\blade3f

How do I accomplish this?
Thanks.






The batch processing appears to have problems with environment variables that start with a digit. I appended an underscore to the dynamic variables to overcome this problem:

@echo off

setlocal

set sList=\\blade3c \\blade3d \\blade3f

for /f &quot;tokens=*&quot; %%a in (&#39;echo %sList%&#39;) do call :PROCESS %%a

echo 3c %_3c%
echo 3d %_3d%
echo 3f %_3f%

goto :EOF

:PROCESS

if &quot;%~1&quot;==&quot;&quot; goto :EOF

set _t=%~1
set _t=%_t:~-2%
set _%_t%=%~1

shift

goto PROCESS

Good Luck,
Steve

How to dynamically create variables with string trim

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