Batch File multiple tokens multiple variables

Question

I am trying to read two different fields per line of a file and assign those fields to two different variables so that I can work with both of the variables together in a for loop.

Right now I have

for /f "tokens=6 delims=:. " %%a in ('type %1% ^| findstr /R /V "Test"') do (
echo %%a
)

for /f "tokens=12 delims=:. " %%b in ('type %1% ^| findstr /R /V "Test"') do (
echo %%b
)

Is there anyway to combine them into something like

for /f "tokens=6,12 delims=:. " %%a %%b in ('type %1% ^| findstr /R /V "Test"') do (
echo %%a
echo %%b
)

Because right now this statement does not work.

foxidrive · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-28 08:22:00Z

5

This should work:

for /f "tokens=6,12 delims=:. " %%a in ('type "%~1" ^| findstr /R /V "Test"') do (
  echo %%a
  echo %%b
)

which could be simplified to

for /f "tokens=6,12 delims=:. " %%a in ('findstr /V "Test" "%~1"') do (
  echo %%a
  echo %%b
)

since findstr can read from files just fine, and you're not using a regular expression anyway.

edited Aug 28, 2013 at 8:22

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