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Think I have finished with this thread. I've added in validation and tidied up a bit. Seen a post Find an IP address posted by locbtran and MarkL provides a very neat solution to what is basically the same but his uses less time and space and has more relevant output - something I'll need to work on...

with a new pair of eyes in the morning it all became clear or at least a little less blurry and I've got it working as intended. The for loop now sets and compares the strings for the first/last and I changed some variables to be in alphabetical order. Main change is I added set i=%nta%...... set s=...

Hello all I have been putting together a subnet calculator with additional feature that I want it to ping each address. So far I can generate a list of the ip addresses in a subnet. Problem is my list includes the subnet number and the broadcast address and I only want useable host ips in the list. ...

Thanks very much for your help. GhostMachine - I am just a beginner with dos scripting (did a bit of vba and javascript in a previous life) so this is me trying to get familiar with variables and loops. Up til now I have only used scripts of 1 or 2 lines targeting a single station. If I have to targ...

Hello I'm a beginner trying to write a script that I thought would be simple but is turning out a bit tricky. I am trying to generate a list of station numbers from a given input of first and last station name eg sws001 to sws500. My problem is that the 3 digit number format seems to cause dos to in...