How to create an array from txt file within a batch file?

Question

I have a txt file with below data

aaaa 1000 2000
bbb  3000 4000
cccc 5000 
ffffd  6000 7000 8000 

The numbers of rows in this file are not fi

Answer 1

try this:

@echo off
for /F "tokens=1,2*" %%x in  (myFile.txt) do echo %%x

the double % is required for use in a batch file, but you can test it on the cmd line with single %s.

in a nutshell, the for will iterate over myFile.txt break each line into two tokens using the default delimiter (space).