Setting IP that i have pinged to be a variable

Question

I am having great difficulty with a batch file i am working with. With the update i received below, i use nslookup to return the IP of the address.

Is it possible to extract the IP returned with the nslookup command as a variable, and then edit the last two digits to change it to the number 1.

The end command is to ping the changed variable.

Do a DNS lookup to convert the hostname to an ip-address first (for which standard functions and tools exist) and then ping that ip-address (if the ping results are really needed) rather than trying to extract the ip-address from the ping output ... And you should probably be using powershell by now... — HBruijn, Oct 19 '16 at 08:13
Thank you, i am new to creating batch files, the nslookup command returns the IP address, how do isolate it to edit it? — Alex, Oct 19 '16 at 10:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 28 '16 at 12:34

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Specific to my code this provided the output required

FOR /F "Skip= 4 tokens=2" %%A IN ('nslookup***')  Do
    Set "ip= %%A"

SET "offsets=0.0.0.-14"

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=. " %%a in ("%ip%") do (
    set octetA=%%a
    set octetB=%%b
    set octetC=%%c
    set octetD=%%d
)
FOR /f "tokens=1-4 delims=." %%a in ("%offsets%") do (
    SET /a octetA+=%%a
    SET /a octetB+=%%b
    SET /a octetC+=%%c
    SET /a octetD+=%%d
)

edited Oct 28 '16 at 12:34

jftuga

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answered Oct 28 '16 at 12:07

Alex

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please indent your code with 4 spaces on each line from now on. – jftuga Oct 28 '16 at 12:35

Setting IP that i have pinged to be a variable

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