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132} How to find out the next weekday given today's?
Or, as a native English speaker would put it
"
How to find out the next day of the week,
given that of today?"
@echo off & setlocal enableextensions
set Day=%~1
set week=
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Sun
call set SubWeek=%%Week:*%day%=%%
Set NextDay=%SubWeek:~1,3%
echo After %Day% comes %NextDay%
endlocal & goto :EOF
The output might be e.g.
C:\_D\TEST>cmdfaq thu
After thu comes Fri
A similar task for the next character, with the Finnish alphabet
@echo off & setlocal enableextensions
set letter=%1
set alpha=
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzåäö
a
call set beta=%%alpha:*%letter%=%%
set last=%beta:~,1%
echo After %letter% comes %last%
endlocal & goto :EOF
The output might be e.g.
C:\_D\TEST>cmdfaq Å
After Å comes ä
Assorted NT/2000/XP/.. CMD.EXE Script Tricks
