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copied!<p>I can't believe this is so complicated! Seems like everyone would want to split a string frequently without knowing how many tokens are in it and without parsing it by lines. Typically, it seems people are writing to a file and then step through it or using a multi sub method like these others. What a mess!</p> <p>Here's my solution. It's easier to follow and works inline, i.e. no sub routine. It is nice to build a list of filenames or whatever and then step through them without having to write to them to a temp file, ensure there is no file writing collision, delete the temp file etc. Plus I don't know how to return a value from a sub like it was a function - I don't think you can. So you'd have to keep writing 2 subs with the other answers I see here each time you wanted to do something like this - one that feeds the other. My method lets you easily create lists and step through them as many times as you want throughout the script.</p> <pre><code>setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion set SomeList= set SomeList=!SomeList!a; set SomeList=!SomeList!b; set SomeList=!SomeList!c; set SomeList=!SomeList!d; set SomeList=!SomeList!e; set SomeList=!SomeList!f; set SomeList=!SomeList!g; set List=!SomeList! :ProcessList FOR /f "tokens=1* delims=;" %%a IN ("!List!") DO ( if "%%a" NEQ "" ( echo %%a ) if "%%b" NEQ "" ( set List=%%b goto :ProcessList ) ) </code></pre> <p>Output:</p> <pre><code>a b c d e f g </code></pre> <p>Obviously you can just exchange the echo with something useful.</p>

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