How to read characters from a string inside a for loop in a batch file -

am trying read characters string inside loop, not getting result. code this

@echo off setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion set str="abcdefgh" /l %%x in (1,1,5) ( set fstr=!str:~1,%%x! echo %fstr% )

all time getting result "echo off". kindly how solve this

change

echo %fstr%

echo !fstr!

%fstr% shows value of fstr existed when line parsed, is, not set, so

echo %fstr%

is interpreted as

echo

hence echo reports echo status - echo off

echo !fstr!

show value of fstr changed within loop (the run-time value).

Scrio