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The foxidrive suggestion is almost the best. But it doesn't work in some specific cases when NEEDLE contains "=" or "*" symbols (in addition to the existing troubles with few specific symbols). Read my first post =)

I don't expect if someone solve the issue for me. I would like to discuss the possible solutions of the topic. As I've said above it is the academic interest only. For example working in bash I can use something like below: if echo $STACK | grep -q "$NEEDLE" ; then echo CONTAINS fi if grep...

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First of all I was looking for simple and short solutions. Any way, your suggestion is good enough to be called as native and the more reliable.

Glad to meet again the solution well known for long time. I have tested it on Win XP/Vista/7 and it works fine with the following tiny improvement: set "rptfile=/specify/the/full/name/to/the/temp/file" for /f "tokens=3,4,5,6,7,8,9 delims=: " %%1 in ( ' makecab /d RptFileName^=&qu...

ShadowThief wrote:findstr is native batch...

To be more clear... Talking about native batch I mean the CMD.EXE features only. In this case findstr is external command despite of that it is native thing in the operating systems.

what you are doing is re-inventing the wheel You're absolutely right =). As foxidrive have said, I have academic interest: is there native batch facilities to achieve the target. Of course, I know about find/findstr as a tool for searching an example of strings (we could add to the list awk/sed/etc...

I am trying to study for myself the most reliable ways to know that some string contains another string. Seems that some points are behind batch stuff. Lets say we have two input string: STACK is a string to search in and NEEDLE is a string to be looked for. There are three answers. 1. STACK contain...

ipconfig /all | filter_command "physical" Filtering (by find, findstr, awk or something else) of the ipconfig output is not reliable way because of dependency on user-defined and locale settings. But you can use it if you sure that all machines have identical locale settings. The followin...

Hi Gibs, Sure, it's possible. for /f %%f in ( 'dir /a-d /o-d /b "%WINDIR%"' ) do ( explorer /select,"%WINDIR%\%%f" goto 1 ) :1 Little bit explanation dir - take the listing /a-d - everything but directories /o-d - sort by date/time (the newest first) /b - show filenames only expl...