I want to store a URL prefix in an Windows environment variable. The ampersands in the query string makes this troublesome though.
For example: I have a URL prefix of http://example.com?foo=1&bar=
and want to create a full URL by providing a value for the bar
parameter. I then want to launch that URL using the "start" command.
Adding quotes around the value for the SET operation is easy enough:
set myvar="http://example.com?foo=1&bar="
Windows includes the quotes in the actual value though (thanks Windows!):
echo %myvar%
"http://example.com?foo=1&bar=true"
I know that I can strip quotes away from batch file arguments by using tilde:
echo %~1
However, I can't seem to do it to named variables:
echo %~myvar%
%~myvar%
What's the syntax for accomplishing this?
echo %myvar:"=%