Escape Char not working when using , and |

[glenfs]

Hi people, I have the following code, But the conversion of , to | does not happen when i use the following code. It does not woek even when i use set str=%str:^,=^|%

Can anyone help as to what i am missing?

set file=GDS.txt
for /f "tokens=*" %%- in (%file%) do (
set str=%%-&&call :NEXT

)
echo.%str%>>gds2.txt
goto :eof

:NEXT
set str=%str:,=|%
echo.%str%>>gds2.txt

[jeb]

Hi gelnfs,

it works!

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set str=%str:,=|%

This replaces each comma with a pipe, the problem is that the pipe character is special character that will be used to create a pipe.

If a sample string is

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one,echo two

Then the replacement line looks like

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set str=one|echo two

This sets the variable "str" to "one", but as there is a pipe this will be in a new cmd.exe context, so it will not take any effect.
And alse the right side of the pipe will be executed and should display "two".

To avoid this you could quote the set statement or use delayed expansion

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set "str=%str:,=|%"
OR
set str=!str:,=^|!

jeb

[glenfs]

Hi Jeb, Thank you for the response, I used the quotes like:
set "str=%str:,=|%"
And also tried the second method u mentioned,
set str=!str:,=^|!

But it is still not working, Here is the part of the sample code i wrote:

:NEXT
set "str=%str:,=|%"
echo.%str%>>gds32.txt
goto :eof

[Ed Dyreen]

'
You just piped the echo part into the part after the pipe and, it throws you an error.

set "str=%str:,=|%"
echo.%str%>>gds32.txt

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Microsoft Windows XP [versie 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

>set "$=hello,there"

>set "$=%$:,=|%"

>set "$"
$=hello|there

>set "$=%$:|=^|%"

>set "$"
$=hello^|there

>>ou.TXT echo.%$%

>type ou.TXT
hello|there

>

As jeb explains very well, the pipe is a special character, it has to be escaped

[jeb]

Now your problem is the ECHO line

You could change it to delayed expansion, then it works

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set "str=%str:,=|%"
echo(!str!>>gds32.

And better avoid echo., as only ECHO( is content safe.

jeb

[glenfs]

Ed and Jeb, Thank you very much for the clarification and the solution you guys provided. It is working fine now.
Really Appreciate it.