How to extract version number in a Windows batch file?

Question

I need to extract the Major , Minor and Revision numbers from a string and to achieve this I\'m trying to split a string in a batch file using a \'.\' character as the delim

Answer 1

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There's a helpful resource: http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-substring.html

SET _test=123456789abcdef0

::Skip 7 characters and then extract the next 5

 SET _result=%_test:~7,5%
 ECHO %_result%          =89abc

Use this approach to extract substrings from the string as you want.

UPDATE:

Get position of a character in a string

As you get the dot position, you can use the above described approach to extract necessary parts from the input string.