how to remove trailing and leading whitespace for user-provided input in dos?
- by OopOop
I know how to do this when the variable is pre-defined. However, when asking for the user to enter in some kind of input, how do I trim leading and trailing whitespace? This is what I have so far:
@echo off
set /p input=:
echo. The input is %input% before
::trim left whitespace
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ("%input%") do set input=%%a
::trim right whitespace (up to 100 spaces at the end)
for /l %%a in (1,1,100) do if "!input:~-1!"==" " set input=!input:~0,-1!
echo. The input is %input% after
pause
Thank you! :)
