Set Iteration - process each item in a set

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Batch Files

Set Iteration - process each item in a set

Set Iteration [process each item in a set].cmd

A major limitation is that there appears to be no way to determine what the delimiters are, even characters such as "=" are consideded delimiters...

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The Code for: "Set Iteration [process each item in a set].cmd"

This is the example, a shortcut was installed to this code :

@echo off
setlocal
set ComputerNames=COMPUTER1,%COMPUTERNAME%,COMPUTER2 COMPUTER3;COMPUTER4

for %%C in (%ComputerNames%) do call :HandleComputer "%%C"
goto :EOF

::+++++++++++++++++++++
:HandleComputer
::+++++++++++++++++++++
   set Computer=%~1
   echo Processing COMPUTER: %Computer%
   goto :EOF

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