Someone must have thought of an easy way to do this:

I would like to replace every underscore with a blank in %variable
in a command-shell script (BAT file).

For example, if %%A is
"The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog"
then I would like to quickly generate
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

I can think of several ways, but they're all pretty long and kludgy.
Can anybody think of an elegant solution?

- Rich

Rich Pasco wrote:

> Someone must have thought of an easy way to do this:
>
> I would like to replace every underscore with a blank in %variable
> in a command-shell script (BAT file).
>
> For example, if %%A is
> "The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog"
> then I would like to quickly generate
> "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
>
> I can think of several ways, but they're all pretty long and kludgy.
> Can anybody think of an elegant solution?
>
> - Rich

Here's one of those long, kudgy ways:

> for /F "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 delims=_" %%g in ("%%f") do echo %%g %%h %%i %%j %%k %%l %%m %%n %%o

"Rich Pasco" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Rich Pasco wrote:
>
>> Someone must have thought of an easy way to do this:
>>
>> I would like to replace every underscore with a blank in %variable
>> in a command-shell script (BAT file).
>>
>> For example, if %%A is
>> "The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog"
>> then I would like to quickly generate
>> "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
>>
>> I can think of several ways, but they're all pretty long and kludgy.
>> Can anybody think of an elegant solution?
>>
>> - Rich
>
> Here's one of those long, kudgy ways:
>
>> for /F "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 delims=_" %%g in ("%%f") do echo %%g %%h
>> %%i %%j %%k %%l %%m %%n %%o
>

set var=The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog
set var=%var:_= %
echo %var%

billious wrote:

>> Rich Pasco wrote:
>>
>>> Someone must have thought of an easy way to do this:
>>>
>>> I would like to replace every underscore with a blank in %variable
>>> in a command-shell script (BAT file).
>>>
>>> For example, if %%A is
>>> "The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog"
>>> then I would like to quickly generate
>>> "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
>>>
>>> I can think of several ways, but they're all pretty long and kludgy.
>>> Can anybody think of an elegant solution?
>
> set var=The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog
> set var=%var:_= %
> echo %var%

Perfect! Exactly what I wanted! Thank you!

- Rich