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read java-ish properties file in a windows bat
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This approach comes from a Stack Overflow answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7708681/how-to-read-from-a-properties-file-using-batch-script#7708757

The use case for me is reading the user's .cxxirc file, which looks something like this

CXXIBASE=P:\projects\cxxi_home\stablebuild_20171031\cxxi\
CXXIJRE=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_121
CXXIOUTPUT=P:\projects\OUTPUT\

A batch file that parses the .cxxirc and just echos out the values...

@echo off  

FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims==" %%G IN ("%USERPROFILE%\.cxxirc") DO (set %%G=%%H)  
echo %CXXIBASE%  
echo %CXXIJRE%  
echo %CXXIOUTPUT%

Would print

P:\projects\cxxi_home\stablebuild_20171031\cxxi\
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_121
P:\projects\OUTPUT\
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