How to modify this for loop:

[PPowerHouseK]

Hello all,

I am working on a batch file. I need to read the contents of a text file and read every other line and set it as a different variable. For instance if the text file read:

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house.map
house.map.zip
house2.map
house2.map.zip
then it would set the variable %map% = house.map, %map2% = house2.map

Here is what i have so far:

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for /f "delims=" %%a in (list.txt) do (
  echo %%a
  set map=%%a
)This only sets the last line as the variable which is not what I need to accomplish. Any help is much appreciated.

[gh0std0g74]

in the end , what are you going to do with the input file? describe properly your output.

[PPowerHouseK]

I'm not real sure what your asking, but what I plan to do is read lines 1,3,5,7,9 from the text, and set them to variables , map map2 map3 map4 and map5 . Then I plan to delete the the text file or input. Once that is complete I will probably move the files. The moving and deleting is not the issue tho, its reading every other line and setting the variables, any ideas?

[Geek-9pm]

PPowerHouseK,
You should provide some sample input text and some desired output,

The FOR /F can read up to 26 lines and assign then A thru Z if you wish

There is a practical limit on how many variables you can have at one time.
You may need to think this over a bit.

[Helpmeh]

PPowerHouseK,
You should provide some sample input text and some desired output,

The FOR /F can read up to 26 lines and assign then A thru Z if you wish

There is a practical limit on how many variables you can have at one time.
You may need to think this over a bit.

Can it not read 52? Upper case and lower case

[PPowerHouseK]

You should provide some sample input text and some desired output.

Here is a sample of the input text:

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house.map
house.map.zip
house2.map
house2.map.zipThe folder its read from is a map repository that I and others will dump either 1 or more maps into.
Lets say for times sake the that Ill cap it off at 10 variables, or 10 maps.
The output should be  all the odd numbered files loaded into corresponding variables.
That's All it has to do for now. Nothing else.

[Salmon Trout]

Can it not read 52? Upper case and lower case

Officially a single FOR /F loop can have up to 26 variables at once (either a-z or A-Z). In fact there are some other undocumented symbols bringing the total to about 32 I think. One loop cannot have a mixture of upper and lower case.

[Geek-9pm]

Officially a single FOR /F loop can have up to 26 variables at once (either a-z or A-Z). In fact there are some other undocumented symbols bringing the total to about 32 I think. One loop cannot have a mixture of upper and lower case.

We would thank you  if you would tell use the secret symbols.

As to the original topic, Can you read lines from a ZIP file?

[BatchFileCommand]

Well, if you can unzip it, yes. But I'm not sure how command line would, or could do that.

[PPowerHouseK]

I'm not quite sure how to approach the responses. I have a function that already reads the presence of the zipped file and outputs the file names to a text file named list.txt. I also have another set of functions that completes the necessary distribution of the zipped files. I just need to read from the list.txt where all the listed files have been output by a previous function. This current for loop does just that and even sets the variables, but not every other line and not to different variables. So please if someone knows how to tweak that loop, I would be very glad.

[gh0std0g74]

basically to set each line to a different variable, i recommend arrays,BUT DOS cmd.exe lacks this feature so people normally do those delayexpansion stuff which i will leave it to somebody else to tell you how to do. Judging from your input file, if all you need to do is get those *.map files, then another way in batch (cmd.exe) is to use findstr

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type file | findstr /I "*.map"
get the results using for loop, and do your stuff. Note the above is not tested...

[ValerieMay]

We would thank you  if you would tell use the secret symbols.

There are no secrets, all of the printable codes in the ASCII can be used.  These include the lower & upper case letters, numbers and characters such as ! " # $ etc in the decimal range 33 thru' 126 although some must be Escaped.  The restriction on how many can be used in a For loop seems to be caused by the maximum of 31 tokens.

So:

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@echo off
cls
set input=now is the time for all good men.

for /f "tokens=1-8" %%^< in ("%input%") do (
    echo %%^<
    echo %%=
    echo %%^>
    echo %%?
    echo %%@
    echo %%A
    echo %%B
    echo %%C
)
works..

[billrich]

C:\>type list.txt
house1.map
house2.map.zip
house3.map
house4.map.zip
house5.map.zip
house6.map.zip
house7.map.zip
house8.map
house9.map.zip
house10.map
C:\>type map.bat

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@echo off

setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set /a c=0
for /f "delims=" %%a in (list.txt) do (
set /a c+=1

  set map!c!=%%a

echo map!c! = %%a

)

REM echo map!c! = !map1!

OUTPUT:

C:\>map.bat
map1 = house1.map
map2 = house2.map.zip
map3 = house3.map
map4 = house4.map.zip
map5 = house5.map.zip
map6 = house6.map.zip
map7 = house7.map.zip
map8 = house8.map
map9 = house9.map.zip
map10 = house10.map

C:\>

[PPowerHouseK]

Thank you Bill. I had almost given up on this topic.    As it seemed to branch into another matter.

That code works perfect, thank you, but i want to ONLY list the .map files as a map and skip the .map.zip
Therefore, with the input from list.txt as:

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house.map
house.map.zip
house2.map
house2.map.zip
house3.map
house3.map.zip
Would be returned as:

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Map1= house.map
Map2=house2.map
Map3=house3.mapTherefore skipping the .zip files.
When the function lists the files in a text, it lists alphabetically alternating the .map and .map.zip, beginning with the .map file. This may allow for counting every other one, or perhaps it would be more efficient to exclude the .zip file extension. This is where I am hung.
Thanks in advance to relevant answers. 

[Salmon Trout]

alter Billrich's code:

either

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for /f "delims=" %%a in ( ' type list.txt ^| find /v /i ".zip" ' ) do (   
OR

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echo %%a | find /i ".zip" || set map!c!=%%a
... but not both

[billrich]

I want to ONLY list the .map files as a map and skip the .map.zip
When the function lists the files in a text, it lists alphabetically alternating the .map and .map.zip, beginning with the .map file. This may allow for counting every other one, or perhaps it would be more efficient to exclude the .zip file extension.

C:\>type list2.txt
house1.map
house1.map.zip
house2.map
house2.map.zip
house3.map
house3.map.zip
house4.map
house4.map.zip

C:\>type zip.bat

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@echo off

findstr /v "zip"  list2.txt

C:\> zip.bat
house1.map
house2.map
house3.map
house4.map
C:\>

[PPowerHouseK]

Well it now works perfectly. Thanks guys that did just the trick. 
Special thanks to Bill and Salmon! You guys Rock!
I used Bill's code with Salmon's first adjustment.
I suppose this can be marked as solved.

[billrich]

PPowerHouseK   wrote:

"When the function lists the files in a text, it lists alphabetically alternating the .map and .map.zip, beginning with the .map file. This may allow for counting every other one, or perhaps it would be more efficient to exclude the .zip file extension. This is where I am hung. "

See Input below*

C:\>type zip2.bat

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@echo off

setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
echo. > ziplist.txt
echo. > finalziplist.txt

findstr /v "zip"  list2.txt

findstr /v "zip"  list2.txt >  ziplist.txt

set /a c=0
for /f "delims=" %%a in (ziplist.txt) do (
set /a c+=1

  set map!c!=%%a

echo map!c! = %%a

echo map!c! = %%a  >>   finalziplist.txt

)

REM echo map!c! = !map1!

OUTPUT:


C:\>zip2.bat
house1.map
house2.map
house3.map
house4.map
map1 = house1.map
map2 = house2.map
map3 = house3.map
map4 = house4.map
C:\>type finalziplist.txt

map1 = house1.map
map2 = house2.map
map3 = house3.map
map4 = house4.map

C:\>


*Input:

C:\>type list2.txt
house1.map
house1.map.zip
house2.map
house2.map.zip
house3.map
house3.map.zip
house4.map
house4.map.zip

C:\>