Double quote used as FOR delim

[Tom Del Rosso]

The DELIM field is terminated with a double quote. Is there a way to
use double quote as a delimiter?

I thought of using string replacement to put another character there but
that might not work, as these long strings have a variety of characters.

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[contrex]

Normally FOR options are enclosed within quotes. If you want to use a quote as part of an option, then the enclosing quotes must be ditched. That means all characters that the CMD interpreter uses as token delimiters must be escaped, including space and equal sign. Also the quote needs to be escaped.


for /f tokens^=1^-3^ delims^=^" %F in ('echo "ab" "bc"') do echo f=%F g=%G h=%H

C:\Windows\System32>for /f tokens^=1^-3^ delims^=^" %F in ('echo "ab" "bc"') do echo f=%F g=%G h=%H

C:\Windows\System32>echo f=ab g= h=bc
f=ab g= h=bc



http://superuser.com/questions/514284/how-do-i-use-a-quote-as-a-for-f-delimiter-in-cmd-exe-on-windows-7

[Tom Del Rosso]

Thanks. That reveals how CMD parses the line before giving it to FOR.
CMD needs the quotes but FOR doesn't even see them.