thanks for reply my problem was -i have done it now is the stripping of all of the unwanted characters and inserting the extra copy bits
my solution is very complicated and involves 10 bat and some vbs stuff all from the web but now looks good but clunky
thanks again
stevieboy
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- 19 Feb 2010 15:03
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: editing a text file
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- 17 Feb 2010 12:29
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: editing a text file
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editing a text file
Hi Any help appreciated I have a text file it contains blocks of variable text see example 1 and I would like to edit the file to the format of Example 2 Example1 --------minus signs here C:\Data\User -lots of spaces here and poss CR /LF Work\dir1 2nd block appears tabbed C:\Data\User1 -lots of spac...