Handling trailing backslash & directory names with spaces in batch files – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/04
Thanks Jeb for answering this:
You can solve it with delayed expansion, because delayed expansion works different than percent expansion.
[sourcecode language=”text”]
:START
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
@echo What folder do you want to process? (Provide a path without a closing backslash)
set /p datapath=::Is string empty?
IF X!datapath! == X GOTO:START::Does string have a trailing slash? if so remove it
IF !datapath:~-1!==\ SET "datapath=!datapath:~0,-1!"echo !datapath!
[/sourcecode]It expands later than the percent expansion, and after the delayed expansion no more parsing is done, so even spaces or special characters have any effect.
–jeroen
via:
- Handling trailing backslash & directory names with spaces in batch files – Stack Overflow.
- Batcheero: How To ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION.
- Environment variable expansion occurs when the command is read – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
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