Batch - Converting variable to uppercase

Question

How would I go about changing the destl variable to uppercase before it is used. I assume some sort of character swap, however I couldn\'t get it working. C

Answer 1

The shortest way (without requiring 3rd party downloads) would be to use PowerShell.

set "str=The quick brown fox"
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%I in (`powershell "\"%str%\".toUpper()"`) do set "upper=%%~I"

A faster way but still using less code than any pure batch solution would be to employ WSH.

@if (@CodeSection == @Batch) @then
@echo off & setlocal

set "str=The quick brown fox"
for /f "delims=" %%I in ('cscript /nologo /e:JScript "%~f0" "%str%"') do set "upper=%%~I"
set upper
goto :EOF

@end // end Batch / begin JScript hybrid
WSH.Echo(WSH.Arguments(0).toUpperCase());

And of course, you can easily make either a function so you can call it multiple times as needed.

@if (@CodeSection == @Batch) @then
@echo off & setlocal

call :toUpper upper1 "The quick brown fox"
call :toUpper upper2 "jumps over the lazy dog."
set upper
goto :EOF

:toUpper  
for /f "delims=" %%I in ('cscript /nologo /e:JScript "%~f0" "%~2"') do set "%~1=%%~I"
goto :EOF

@end // end Batch / begin JScript hybrid
WSH.Echo(WSH.Arguments(0).toUpperCase());

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Or if you want to be really hacksy about it, you could abuse the tree command's error message like this:

@echo off & setlocal

set upper=
set "str=Make me all uppercase!"
for /f "skip=2 delims=" %%I in ('tree "\%str%"') do if not defined upper set "upper=%%~I"
set "upper=%upper:~3%"
echo %upper%