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Hello. I have a question on the code supplied here. This is exactly what I was looking for (search is your friend ) but I cannot make it work. I created the reference file with the names (in my case one value is a number and the other a name). The file I need to alter is a csv file (no problem chang...

How do you do this same thing but for all subfolders as well?

All I really wanted was a good point in the right direction, but I certainly won't complain that you wrote something for me that works perfectly. As usual, I'm learning stuff from reading the code you give me, and I appreciate the help and the education. Do you know of a good tutorial for the part o...

I am trying to read the 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th and 17th fields in each line and if they are blank, remove the value from the previous field. I have numerous bugs here, the most obvious of which is that I can't figure out how to change the value associated with the token and write it back to the line ...

Nope, no AutoRun.
I give up. I'll just have to test it in the field.

Thank you for all your help. The two variables are a world of help.

I don't know what is going on with my computer. There must be a setting, or perhaps some domain thing going on, because even though the path shown in the title bar is system32, with or without the quotes, both commands return the desktop. Further, when testing a batch that moves files from the deskt...

I think I know the problem. Those happen if you run the code as administrator. The easies way could be to change the working directory to the path of your batch: @echo off cd /d "%~dp0" :: your stuff here Regards aGerman This indicates that even though Windows is running the batch file fr...

I have a number of batch files that get used regularly by my coworkers, but now that Win7 is everywhere, I have encountered a problem. I want to keep it simple and have them just throw a folder on the desktop temporarily and run the batch from inside it then delete the folder afterwards. The problem...

I find that If Else in batch files is a pain in the neck. Half the time I cannot get it to work.
I usually end up doing

If test command
If Not sametest newcommand

Acy Forsythe wrote:

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@echo off

Set file=source.txt

for /f "usebackq tokens=* delims=" %%a in (%file%) do Echo %%a

You can get the value for %file% anyway you choose like Set /P for instance...

I swear I tried that and it didn't work. This time it does.

Thank you.

I can input the variable to the batch file okay using set /p, but no matter what I do I get an error that the file cannot be found and the error always shows the variable name that I used to collect the filename. Can someone explain the syntax of this? for /f "usebackq tokens=* delims=" %%...

The more I think about it, the more I like my second method. It works and it should be clean. Using the second SET not only sets the value that I want, but also sets the length, which is important because the records are of varying length. It's nice to have someone else tell me I'm not totally out i...

Not having a full grasp of all the commands available, for all I know there might be a command that will do this properly. Bearing in mind that the line being read in is less than 80 characters, what I have done is read in the short line and write it to the output file defined as a longer line, like...

I got it. I think I even understand most of it, thanks to having a functional example and the wonders of Google to look up what you were doing. I thank you both for the help. I have another question in the same project but it is different enough from this that it should be its own topic, so I'll ope...

Hi mid_life_crisis, I suppose you want to do something like this... Print only all lines with "A" as first character, but add a "#" to the line. @echo off setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion ( for /f "usebackq tokens=* delims=" %%a in ("infile.txt") do ( set &qu...