Number of tokens limit in a FOR command in a Windows batch script

Question

I was trying to process a text file in a Windows batch script and I ran into something that looks like a limitation to 31 tokens in a FOR loop. I isolated the issue in the c

Answer 1

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%i is explicitly declared in the for statement and the %j and %k are implicitly declared via the tokens= option. You can specify up to 26 tokens via the tokens= line, provided it does not cause an attempt to declare a variable higher than the letter 'z' or 'Z'. Remember, FOR variables are single-letter, case sensitive, global, and you can't have more than 52 total active at any one time.