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so, I solved my problem sufficiently by using:
I trade-off "§ §" for "§_§", which is no problem;
still, I'm curious why "§" creates so much trouble...

so the line which crashes the script contains the following characters: if I replace them with something else, the script runs trough...

ok, so I'm progressing, in a sence: if I apply the following: call _jrepl.bat "! \x22" "_ \xA7" /t "" /xseq /f "%Lineup%|UTF-8|NB" /o "%dr%___lineup.mx" I get from the original.mxf the resulting "___lineup.mx" without BOM which makes some things easier (what still would be nice, is to replace "\x22\...

Thanks for the very extensive and detailed answer! the \b thing was basically a silly copy-cat error; I saw it somewhere and assumed it is kind of lead-in to the string... the mxf is not a media file but a representation of a database, sort of (the channel listing of the windows media center)... any...

thanks for the excellent tool ! I need to parse an mxf file within a batch; the mxf contains several special characters which pose a problem for batch: "!", " " " (double quote), ":",... I want to replace them by a harmless characters for subsequent parsing... as a first step I tried to replace "!" ...