[windows2000] Re: String Comparison in CMD or BAT script?

SET PREFIX=%COMPUTERNAME:~0,4%

IF {%PREFIX%}=={TCAA} GOTO skip_notice

Ray at work

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert K Coffman Jr - Info From Data Corporation 

> 
> Anyone have an elegant solution to this?
> 
> I have a series of servers, all beginning with the same 4 
> letter string.  I'd like to check for the first 4 letters, 
> rather than the entire string.  In other words, how can I do 
> a LEFT$ in a script?
> 
> current solution that blows:
> 
> if '%computername%' == 'TCCA01' goto skip_notice
> if '%computername%' == 'TCCA02' goto skip_notice
> etc....
> 



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