How do I escape double quotes from WITHIN double quotes?

[autoamerican]

I'm throwing together a quick one-line batch to run a command on one of my servers and dump the output to a text file. I have to tokenize the output, and unfortunately the output contains quotation marks.

Here's a sample of the output:

Type Name Status Version
--------------------------------------------------------------------
le "OvSvcDiscErrorLog" enabled 0011.0000
le "OvSvcDiscServerLog" enabled 0011.0000
msgi "MS Win Catch All opcmsg" enabled 0001.0044
msgi "Magic Integration Test" enabled 0001.0008

The only stuff I want is the stuff under the Name column, including the quotation marks (I'll need them later). You can see that some of my lines have spaces between the quotes, so I can't just tokenize it on a space or I lose half of my wording.

Here's how I'm trying to escape the quotes, but no luck:

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for /f "delims=^"" %%p in ('ovpolicy -list -level 0') do echo %%p >> c:\policies.txt

[Squashman]

try this

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for /f delims^=^" %%p in ('ovpolicy -list -level 0') do echo %%p >> c:\policies.txt

[aGerman]

Actually I don't understand why you have to tokenize it. How should the output look like?

Regards
aGerman

[Squashman]

Realized I forgot the tokens.

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for /f tokens^=2^ delims^=^" %%p in (file.txt) do echo "%%p"

[abc0502]

Realized I forgot the tokens.

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for /f tokens^=2^ delims^=^" %%p in (file.txt) do echo "%%p"

Do you mind explaining that ?

[Squashman]

Realized I forgot the tokens.

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for /f tokens^=2^ delims^=^" %%p in (file.txt) do echo "%%p"

Do you mind explaining that ?

Wait for Jeb. I learned that from him.

[Ed Dyreen]

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for /f tokens^=1-3^ delims^=^" %a in ("aaa"bbb ccc"") do echo.%a,%b,%c_

sets " as delimiter

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aaa,bbb ccc,_

http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18886#p18886

[abc0502]

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for /f tokens^=1-3^ delims^=^" %a in ("aaa"bbb ccc"") do echo.%a,%b,%c_

sets " as delimiter

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aaa,bbb ccc,_

http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18886#p18886

Thanks Ed Dyreen i was searching for the topic of this method