I've started another small Batch project, however I've encountered a bit of a dilemma. I use set name= followed by set /p name=, to allow the user to give the input desired. However, I want the variable entered with spaces to then have the spaces replaced with hyphens (e.g. "hello world" becomes "hello-world").
I've searched around and found many situations in which someone asks a similar question, however they are all using the ren command, which I have no use for due to not dealing with files.
My current code is as follows:
@echo off
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echo Insert a string with spaces?
set string=
set /p string=
I have also found a solution for renaming files that mentioned using ren "!file!" "!file:_= !" to change a file name's spaces to underscores (_). However changing it to set name=!name:-= ! didn't work for me.
How can I best replace spaces with hyphens in my batch file?