jeb,
thank you. I'm not at all a scripting guy on windows, more Assembler and REXX on mainframes. Will have to catch up with DOS, too.
Once again, thank you very much.
Christian
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- 02 Nov 2011 09:53
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Help on string manipulation needed
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- 02 Nov 2011 08:56
- Forum: DOS Batch Forum
- Topic: Help on string manipulation needed
- Replies: 2
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Help on string manipulation needed
Hello all, I try to extract the first 6 characters of a given filename to produce a command. Given a file name of M00091.het the following script FOR %%f IN (*.het) DO F:/HERC370/HERCULES/HETINIT -i D:/Programme/HERCULES/zOS/tapes/HSM1/DONE/%%f %%F:~0,5 HERCULES should produce a command HETINIT D:/P...