Searching for white space in environment variable

[awrightus]

Trying to find a way to search for white space in an environment
variable. Batch file running on XP. Let's say I have a variable
test1 that equals "word", but then another that equals "word
another". Trying to to figure out when an environment variable has a
space in it. findstr.exe seems to support regular expressions, so I
thought I could do "findstr /R \s %test1%", but findstr.exe only seems
to want to search files and not variables. Any ideas how to approach
this? Thanks.

Steve

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Trying to find a way to search for white space in an environment
variable. Batch file running on XP. Let's say I have a variable
test1 that equals "word", but then another that equals "word
another". Trying to to figure out when an environment variable has a
space in it. findstr.exe seems to support regular expressions, so I
thought I could do "findstr /R \s %test1%", but findstr.exe only seems
to want to search files and not variables. Any ideas how to approach
this? Thanks.

Steve

Try this:

echo %test1%|find " ">nul&&echo Space found

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Trying to find a way to search for white space in an environment
variable. Batch file running on XP. Let's say I have a variable
test1 that equals "word", but then another that equals "word
another". Trying to to figure out when an environment variable has a
space in it. findstr.exe seems to support regular expressions, so I
thought I could do "findstr /R \s %test1%", but findstr.exe only seems
to want to search files and not variables. Any ideas how to approach
this? Thanks.

Steve

Here is a more elegant method.

if not "%test1%"=="%test1: =%" echo Space found