Loop over folder string and parse out last folder name

Question

I need to grab the folder name of a currently executing batch file. I have been trying to loop over the current directory using the following syntax (which is wrong at prese

Answer 1

This is what we had in the end (little bit more crude and can only go so deep :)

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1-10 delims=\" %%A in ('echo %~p0') do (
    if NOT .%%A==. set new=%%A
    if NOT .%%B==. set new=%%B
    if NOT .%%C==. set new=%%C
    if NOT .%%D==. set new=%%D
    if NOT .%%E==. set new=%%E
    if NOT .%%F==. set new=%%F
    if NOT .%%G==. set new=%%G
    if NOT .%%H==. set new=%%H
    if NOT .%%I==. set new=%%I
    if NOT .%%J==. set new=%%J
)

@echo %new%