How to set commands output as a variable in a batch file

Question

Is it possible to set a statement\'s output of a batch file to a variable, for example:

findstr testing > %VARIABLE%

echo %VARIABLE%

Answer 1

I found this thread on that there Interweb thing. Boils down to:

@echo off 
setlocal enableextensions 
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ( 
'VER' 
) do ( 
set myvar=%%a 
) 
echo/%%myvar%%=%myvar% 
pause 
endlocal 

You can also redirect the output of a command to a temporary file, and then put the contents of that temporary file into your variable, likesuchashereby. It doesn't work with multiline input though.

cmd > tmpFile 
set /p myvar= < tmpFile 
del tmpFile 

Credit to the thread on Tom's Hardware.