Batch File load ini file with comments

Question

I would like to use a batch script to automate some work that I will give customers. I want to give them an INI file WITH comments (so they understand what they are setting).

Example INI:

[General]
;Set your operating system
OS=Windows7

Read ini from windows batch file Is a good start but does not help with comments.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The FOR statement has the EOL option that specifies a character that indicates the line is to be ignored if it appears in the 1st position on a line. The default EOL character is ; , so you don't have to do anything special to ignore lines that begin with ; .

Your requirements are not very clear. I'm not sure what (if anything) you want to do with the section labels like [General]. I'm going to ignore them.

You can use FIND or FINDSTR to filter out any line that does not contain = .

Here is a simple script that will load variables as defined by the .ini file. Lines that begin with ; are comments. Section headers are ignored.

@echo off
for /f "delims=" %%A in ('findstr = example.ini') do %%A