Batch file split a string?

Question

I've tried

for /F "delims= " %%A in ("Hello World") do echo %%A %%B

and it says

Hello
%B

I need to get %%A and %%B to be 'hello' and 'world' but what I've tried above doesn't work. What do I need to do? I've tried without "delims= " and without /F and it's still not working.

Answer 1

you need also tokens option:

for /F "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%A in ("Hello World") do echo %%A %%B

and 1 will become %%A and the second token corresponds to %%B.In this case the out put will be "Hello Earth":

for /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims= " %%A in ("Hello planet Earth") do echo %%A %%C

Answer 2

you forgot to specify the tokens (Default is "tokens=1", so %%b is not valid with your code):

for /f "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%a in ("hello world") do echo %%a-%%b

the shorter version without /f is:

for %%i in (hello world) do echo %%i