Substring and command's output assignment to a variable in DOS batch programming

Question

I'm trying to capture the time before I execute a command. Up to now, I have this code (I am using Windows 7 Pro) :

time < nul | findstr  /r [0-9][0-9]*.*$

The above prints:

The current time is: 13:02:23.89

My questions are:

1) How do I get rid of the "The current time is: " string?

2) How do I assign the remaining value 13:02:23.89 to a variable?

Unfortunately, I cannot put other utilities in this computer, such as resource kits, cygwin, powershell, and other third-party executables. The solution must involve just DOS batch commands.

Thanks.

wmz · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-06 18:43:44Z

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echo %time% - there is already variable holding current time :-)

For more - help set

answered Feb 6, 2012 at 18:43

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Some Guy Over a year ago

Yes, my bad! I found about it after I posted. Too late!! But thanks a lot for your help too

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