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@foxidrive @echo off set "replace=%~1" set "string=" for /f "delims=" %%a in ('echo("%replace%"^|repl "[a-zA-Z0-9\x22]" "" x ') do set "string=%%a" if defined string (echo illegal characters detected) else (echo all ok!) pause Tha...

@Squashman. Thank you for letting me know the new version. But as for me the older version seems more suitable since I have to search and replace the same string on multiple files. I can add on the required files on my main script and call repl to search and replace. And I was not able to figure out...

@Squashman Thats pretty long code, got it from m @ShadowThief I mean anything other than alphabets and numericals thought of doing with 'sed' pretty cool command in linux. Got to know we can execute it in windows as well by installing sed utility, but my concern here is to find whether entered argum...

I have reached till here... The below script replaces the "old name" with "new name", I got a replace function "replace.bat" which does that. Now I need to make sure the second argument does not contain any special characters it it before replacing "old name" ...

Could any one help on this.
Need to check if the entered argument has any special characters in it and throw an error/exit if it has any.