How does “FOR” work in cmd batch file?

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None of the answers actually work. I’ve managed to find the solution myself.
This is a bit hackish, but it solve the problem for me:

echo off
setlocal enableextensions
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set MAX_TRIES=100
set P=%PATH%
for /L %%a in (1, 1, %MAX_TRIES%) do (
  for /F "delims=;" %%g in ("!P!") do (
    echo %%g
    set P=!P:%%g;=!
    if "!P!" == "%%g" goto :eof
  )
)

Oh ! I hate batch file programming !!

Updated

Mark’s solution is simpler but it won’t work with path containing whitespace. This is a little-modified version of Mark’s solution

echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set NonBlankPath=%PATH: =#%
set TabbedPath=%NonBlankPath:;= %
for %%g in (%TabbedPath%) do (
  set GG=%%g
  echo !GG:#= !
)

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