[Solved] Split string with variable length in Windows Batch

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As Mofi already noted, a simple for will do the trick. Add a counter to build up a variable for every “word” (array). Whether they are real words or numbers doesn’t matter, but some special chars will generate errors, like &, | or just being ignored, like %, !).

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set count=0
set "string=some substrings with variable lengths separated by space"
for %%a in (%string%) do (
  set /a count+=1
  set substring[!count!]=%%a
)
set substring[

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solved Split string with variable length in Windows Batch