Any way to get the first few characters of filename in DOS batch file Programming

Question

I am using this in my program

for %%I in (*.txt) do (

The filenmae is in %%I.

Now i want to separate the first 2 chracters , next 3 characters , separately.

is it possible in DOS or Cmd.exe

Answer 1

http://www.dostips.com/DtTipsStringManipulation.php

set first2=%%I:~0,2% && set next3=%%I:~3,3%

I think.. geez, its been a while!