Determine Number of Tokens - BATCH - for-loop

Question

I'm currently working on a mass user creation script through PowerShell and Batch. At the moment the script is 95 lines and is the largest script I've ever written in Batch.
I want the script to be as automated as possible and plan to give it to clients that need help creating a mass number of users. To do this, I have a 21 line settings file and one of the variables that I need is the full domain name (This is needed for dsadd)
The problem with this is that users may have any number of variables for this - anywhere from two in testlabs to four in places like schools. I am so far able to separate the tokens however I need them all stored as variables like %%a, %%b and not to store everything as %%a. The number of tokens will be dynamic so I need some sort of solution to this. Something like this (Yes I know this is not the correct syntax):
if number of tokens=4 (
dsadd "cn=%%a,ou=%%b,dc=%DSuffix1%,dc=%DSuffix2%,dc=%DSuffix3%,dc=%Dsuffix4% )
In that line %%a and %%b are variables in another for loop later in the code that reads from a user list excel file. I would need something like that for anything from two tokens to four tokens. I don't mind if the solution to this is not purely BATCH however that is my preferred option.
Thanks.
EDIT: Here is the for loop I have at the moment, this is nested in another larger for loop that adds the users:
for /f "tokens=1,2,3,4 delims=." %%a in (Settings.ini) do (
set L=22
if !L!=22 set DSuffix1=%%a&& set DSuffix2=%%b&& set DSuffix3=%%c&& set DSuffix4=%%d
)
The settings.ini file contains various settings such as the Exchange server and path to the user's home directory. The line I need to interpret is line 22 which looks like this:
DOMAINNAME.SUFFIX(.SUFFIX.SUFFIX.SUFFIX)
A real life example would be:
testlab.local
or
testlab.ghamilton.local
For a testlab the setting should only be the domainname and suffix although for others such as schools or institutions the number of domain suffixes can go up to four. I want to interpret this.
EDIT: Managed to indent code correctly, sorry.

Answer 1

If I understand you right, you have a string such as domain.foo.bar.baz and you want to change that to dc=domain,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=baz.
How about this?
set domain=domain.foo.bar.baz
echo dc=%domain:.=,dc=%
That should echo this:
dc=domain,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=baz
That %domain:.=,dc=% line is expanding the %domain% environment variable, but replacing all . with ,dc=. See http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-replace.html for more details.
To do string replacement in an environment variable, you do need the value to be in an environment variable first. Here's a script that will read line 22 from settings.ini, combined with the above technique:
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set L=0
for /f %%a in (settings.ini) do (
set /a L=!L! + 1
if !L! equ 22 (
set domain=%%a
echo dc=!domain:.=,dc=!
)
)
L is being used to count what line we're on. When we reach line 22, we set an environment variable to the value of the entire line (%%a), then do the string substitution as above (but with ! rather than % to take advantage of delayed expansion).
Of course instead of an echo, you would do something like
dsadd "cn=%cn%,ou=%ou%,dc=!domain:.=,dc=!"

Answer 2

Here's my little snippet to sort of demonstrate how to get the separate tokens (the delims are space and tab, but you can change them).
#echo off & setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "tokens=1,2,3,4" %%a in (test.txt) do (
set token1=%%a
set token2=%%b
set token3=%%c
set token4=%%d
set full=%%a%%b%%c%%d
)
set token
set full
pause>nul
test.txt contains:
first second third
The output was:
token1=first
token2=second
token3=fourth
full=firstsecondthird
So, you could judge how many tokens there is by something like
for /l %%i in (4,-1,1) do if not defined token%%i set amount=%%i
Or something along the same lines.
Hope that helps.