Shell Is it possible for a variable inside of a variable?

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Is it possible for a variable inside of a variable? - Topkek_Is_Life - Dec 9, 2014

I'm pretty rusty with batch and am looking for a way to do this or a way around it.
The script is

Code 
set var%setnum%= %str:~!str1!,!str2!%

Where %setnum% is equal to 1, %str% is equal to the alphabet (ABCD...), %str1% is equal to 0, and %str2% is equal to 1.
so that it would display like

Code 
Set var1= ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ:~0,1

That way if I were to echo %var1% is would display "A"

* - WOLGA - Dec 9, 2014

You want the variable's name to correspond with a letter of the alphabet?

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setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

set str=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

for /l %%A in (0,1,25) do (

set /a num=%%A+1

set var!num!=!str:~%%A,1!

)

* - White Light - Dec 9, 2014

(Dec 9, 2014 03:01 PM)Topkek_Is_Life Wrote: I'm pretty rusty with batch and am looking for a way to do this or a way around it.
The script is

Code
set var%setnum%= %str:~!str1!,!str2!%
Where %setnum% is equal to 1, %str% is equal to the alphabet (ABCD...), %str1% is equal to 0, and %str2% is equal to 1.
so that it would display like

Code
Set var1= ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ:~0,1
That way if I were to echo %var1% is would display "A"

When you're storing a variable, you're storing the actual value of the variable and not how to get the variable. It will expand that entire line, and then perform what it says.