BATCH FILE - How to get a specific word/letters in a filename?

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How to get the letters/word in a filename?

For Example: 2012P02B.xml - i just want to get the letters: "P02B"

Please help me. Thanks and Regards!

Posted 5-Dec-12 19:25pm

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bopannavb 6-Dec-12 4:14am

can you be specific in what format you need the letters/word like you don't need the number and the extension or any thing specific

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Pablo Aliskevicius · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-05T22:20:00

What do you mean by "get"? ECHO? Write to a file? Load into a variable?
To get echo, try this:

DIR 2012*.XML /B > TEST.TXT
for /F "eol=. tokens=2 delims=2." %i in (test.txt) do @echo %i

The first line creates a text file with bare names of all matching files.
The second line runs on the text file, splitting it into 'tokens' each time it finds a 'delimiter'.
The delimiters are 2 and dot.
If your file is 2012p03b.xml, the tokens would be: 2012p03b.xml.
The second token (%i) would be p03b.

Hope this points you in the right direction,

Pablo.