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Asked: 2021-12-05T23:52:16+00:00 In:

Truncate Last Characters Of a String In Txt F

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Hi,

I am trying to create a batch file which will read a text file, and delete last four characters from the text in it…ie
file will read test.txt for mynameis.txt
batch file will change it to
mynameis and store it as a variable

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      at command prompt, see: for /?
      set /?
      setlocal /?
      that you you’ll know what’s going on here.
      here’s the quickie version:

      @echo off & setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
      for /f “tokens=*” %%a in (file.txt) do (
      set xx=%%a
      set xx=!xx:~0,-4!
      echo.!xx!
      )

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