JSI Tip 9470. A better way to determine the length of a string.

I have scripted VLen.bat to determine the length of a string.

The syntax for using VLen.bat is:

call VLen String Length

where String is the string whose length you want to determine, and Length is a call directed numeric environment variable that will contain the length of the string.

NOTE: See A better way to determine the position and length of a sub-string in a string.

VLen.bat contains:

@echo off
if \{%2\}==\{\} @echo Syntax: call VLen String Length&goto :EOF
set /a %2 = 0
if exist "%TEMP%\VLen.vbs" goto vl
@echo dim str>"%TEMP%\VLen.vbs"
@echo Set objshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")>>"%TEMP%\VLen.vbs"
@echo Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments>>"%TEMP%\VLen.vbs"
@echo str=objArgs(0)>>"%TEMP%\VLen.vbs"
@echo wscript.echo Len(str)>>"%TEMP%\VLen.vbs"
:vl
for /f "Tokens=*" %%a in ('cscript.exe //nologo "%TEMP%\VLen.vbs" %1') do (
 set /a %2=%%a
)

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