How do I substring a dynamic variable value in windows batch scripting - batch-file

Question

Not able to substring the dynamic variable inside forloop in Windows batch script.
I have the properties file in my git hub in the below format.
"collectionName=TestCollectionRun.json=test"
So I have written the below code to fetch this values.But the requirement is that I need to strip of the '.json' part from collection name.With the below code I am not able to set/echo that value.Can you please help on this!
#ECHO ON
:BEGIN
IF EXIST "test.properties" ECHO Found properties file, reading file..
SET props=test.properties
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
For /F "delims== tokens=1,2,3" %%G in (%props%) Do (
if "%%I" EQU "test" if "%%G" EQU "collectionName" SET collName=%%H(
SET finalCollName=%collName%:~0,-5
ECHO %finalCollName%
)
)
:END
We need the ECHO to return "TestCollectionRun".currently its not returning anything.

Answer 1

For /F "delims== tokens=1,2,3" %%G in (%props%) Do (
if "%%I" EQU "test" if "%%G" EQU "collectionName" SET "collName=%%~nH"&echo %%~nH
)
ECHO %CollName%
Note the second ) is now redundant. Your problem has to do with delayedexpansion which you are invoking but not using. call %%collname%% within the for loop would have shown the value after assignment if required.
This code works by interpreting %%H as a filename and assigning simply the name part of %%H (%%~nH)

Answer 2

Given a line content of collectionName=TestCollectionRun.json=test, here's a quick rewrite of what I think you're tring to do:
#Echo Off
Set "props=test.properties"
If Not Exist "%props%" (
Echo Properties file not found!
Echo Exiting..
Timeout /T 3 /NoBreak >NUL
Exit /B
)
Echo Found properties file, reading file..
For /F "UseBackQ Tokens=1-3 Delims==" %%A In ("%props%") Do (
If /I "%%C" == "test" If /I "%%A" == "collectionName" Echo %%~nB
)
Pause
If you wanted to do something with the collection name within the loop then you would probably need to use delayed expansion:
#Echo Off
SetLocal DisableDelayedExpansion
Set "props=test.properties"
If Not Exist "%props%" (
Echo Properties file not found!
Echo Exiting..
Timeout /T 3 /NoBreak >NUL
Exit /B
)
Echo Found properties file, reading file..
For /F "UseBackQ Tokens=1-3 Delims==" %%A In ("%props%") Do (
If /I "%%C" == "test" If /I "%%A" == "collectionName" (
Set "collName=%%B"
SetLocalEnableDelayedExpansion
Echo !collName!
Rem Perform substring task on the variable named collName
Set "finalCollName=!collName%:~0,-5!"
Echo !finalCollName!
EndLocal
)
)
Pause
Note, these answers will not work, as is, if your string is surrounded by doublequotes, (as in your question body), or if the line content differs (e.g. begins with spaces or tabs).
[Edit /]
Looking at your 'after the fact' question in the comments, it is clear that you do not need to substring the variable at all, so should use the first method posted:
Echo Found properties file, reading file..
For /F "UseBackQ Tokens=1-3 Delims==" %%A In ("%props%") Do (
If /I "%%C" == "test" If /I "%%A" == "collectionName" (
newman run "%%B" -e "%envName%" --insecure --reporters cli,htmlextra --reporter-htmlextra-export "newman\%BUILD_NUMBER%\%%~nB.html" --disable-unicode
)
)
Pause
This assumes that both %envName% and %BUILD_NUMBER% have been previously defined correctly.