batch file to strip numbers from filename and pad to two digits

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Published on 2011-06-25T14:14:35Z Indexed on 2011/06/25 16:23 UTC
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I have a text file with a list of server names (servers.txt) that looks something like this:

server1 server2 server3

I have a feeling this can be done with the FOR command as I use that to perform an action on each name in the file, but I'm not quite sure how to use the delimiters to accomplish this.

for /F "tokens=*" %%G in (servers.txt) do (  
  SET machinenum = <magic here>
  ECHO %machinenum%
)

expected output

01 02 03

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