One of the situations where setlocal enabledelayedexpansion comes on handy to replace \ with / which some unix based tools like better: [WayBack] string – Change backslash to forward slash in windows batch file – Stack Overflow
echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for %%f IN ("C:\tools\workspace\*") DO ( set old=%%f echo !old! set new=!old:\=/! echo !new! echo. )
Related, as it explains when the source and target replacements are in variables themselves: [WayBack] command line – String replacement in batch file – Stack Overflow, thanks Joey and Tom Warfield!
You can use the following little trick:
set word=table set str="jump over the chair" call set str=%%str:chair=%word%%% echo %str%The
callthere causes another layer of variable expansion, making it necessary to quote the original%signs but it all works out in the end.…
Upvoting this answer because it works both ways, with the environment variable in either position, or in both the “before” and “after” positions:
set word=table
set str="jump over the chair"
call set str=%%str:chair=%word%%%
echo %str%
set word1=chair
set word2=desk
set str="jump over the chair"
call set str=%%str:%word1%=%word2%%%
echo %str%'
–jeroen
