Change content of variable.

[Woodman]

Win XP (H) Cmd.exe Batch script.

In a For loop is it possible to change the content of %%A by removing the first character only without using the Set command.

e.g.

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Set var=%%A
ren %%A !var:~1!

will correctly rename the filename in %%A but is there a command which will remove the first char of %%A so that the code could be:

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ren %%A !%%A:~1!or something like that???

[gh0std0g74]

what do you want to do actually?

[Woodman]

At present, nothing.  Just querying if its possible to change the content of an %%A type variable in the same, or similar, manner to that of an %A% type variable.