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Posted: **12 Jul 2013 13:40**

Well, well well.

Hands up who knew that the delimiters in a for /F were case sensitive? I didn't.

@echo off
for /f "delims=abc" %%a in ("ABCabc") do set "var=%%a"
echo "%var%"
pause

It returns:

"ABC"

It has been 10 or more years that I've been using delims and never have I struck an instance where the case was an issue - luck I guess.

Posted: **12 Jul 2013 15:01**

I knew it. We had this recently at stackoverflow :wink:

Posted: **12 Jul 2013 15:06**

I kind of assumed it but never tested it because the token variables are case sensitive I would assume the delims are as well.

Posted: **12 Jul 2013 17:26**

Endoro wrote:I knew it. We had this recently at stackoverflow

Yes indeed. I added my own bit too and didn't realise that Aacini's was spot on.

Squashman wrote:I kind of assumed it but never tested it because the token variables are case sensitive I would assume the delims are as well.

It's actually more useful being case sensitive. Can't get over it being something so obvious but I never struck it until today.

I was filtering out characters from a DATE command and tripped over it...

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