How do you strip quotes out of an ECHO'ed string in a Windows batch file?

Question

I have a Windows batch file I\'m creating, but I have to ECHO a large complex string, so I\'m having to put double quotes on either end. The problem is that the quotes are

Answer 1

Daniel Budzyński's response is brilliant. It works even in situations where there are special characters in the output. For example:

C:\> for /f "usebackq tokens=2 delims=:" %i in (`%comspec%\..\ping -n 1 -w 200 10.200.1.1 ^| \
     findstr /c:"TTL="`) do echo|set /p="%i"

bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255

If you try tried a simple echo without the quotes, you get a error, due to the "<" in the variable:

C:\> set "output=bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255"
C:\> echo %output%
The system cannot find the file specified.

C:\> echo|set /p="%output%"
bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255