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Ed Dyreen

I hope we can learn to see eye-to-eye in future...

The reasons behind your style and their purpose have not gone unnoticed by me but I feel there is a time and place for complexity - just as there is a need for simplicity in some situations.

orange_batch Yes. I do a lot of stuff often requiring arrays, multi-dimensional arrays, recursion, data crunching algorithms and code generation. Some of my projects include text-based games, compilers, parsers, filters, editors and library functions. My main interests are writing DOS extensions in...

Rileyh Apologies. I did intend to remove my previous reply when jeb pointed out your age to me - something I didn't even think to check myself. Given the circumstances, I apologies for the manner in which I conducted myself - it was inappropriate. I would prefer not to dwell on this matter any furt...

(Some comments were edited out by paultomasi) Rileyh @paultomasi When stating about Ed Dyreen, please refrain from being conceited. BTW- Ed Dyreen- expert Paultomasi- not expert So stating about the way that Ed codes in a conceited manner from your position is not reasonable- you are less experience...

Ed Dyreen Good program design is not just about getting code to work right - it also includes good layout. What I mean by that is: - consistency (comes with good practice and experience) - properly formatted layout using indentations etc. - good balance of white space - remarks - meaningful variabl...

Rileyh Apart from processing the one line in a file (the line containing: ' printline /a Hello world. '), do you actually need to process all the other lines too? If you don't then you could use FINDSTR to 'pick out' ' printline ' as in the following code: NOTE: Just copy & paste the code into n...

orange_batch

I agree with you on the force-of-habit thing...

when you say you want to access each part of the string separately, you can do the following (although it's not the way I would normally do it): for /f "tokens=1-26" %%a in ("%$$%") do ( echo %%a echo %%b echo %%c :etc... ) Notice I have no idea how many tokens there are in the s...

QUESTION 2:
How can I delimit the !$$! variable by its spaces (if it contains them) in this code:

For example:
will display the value of $$ with all of it's spaces suppressed.

If you want to actually remove the spaces then you can do the following:

QUESTION 1: What is the difference between "%%~a" and "%%a"? If %%a includes double-quotes as part of it's value then %%~a suppresses them. This is of particular concern when we are adding double-quotes around %%a . If it's value already includes them then we end up with two lot...

Don't for get to set your destination path after the '=' on the 2nd line or hardcode it into the xcopy command. @echo off set destination= echo %windir%>exclude.tmp for %%a in (doc pdf xls) do ( xcopy "*.%%a" "%destination%" /c /d:11-1-2011 /s /exclude:exclude.tmp ) del exclude.t...

Try this simple batch file. change the second line to point to your own destination folder on drive D:.

Well said nitt however, let's look at the proper way to generate random numbers between (and including) 'min' and 'max'.

The following code will generate a random number between 5..10 inclusively:

jeb @echo off set append=abcd for /F "delims=" %%a in ("hello") do ( echo %%~a%append% ) There's absolutely no need to use a ' FOR /F '-loop with "delims=" to make your point. The following would have sufficed: @echo off set append=abcd for %%a in ("hello") d...

A trick is to use the 'filename' property of a FOR's '%'-variable as in the following example: set script=fail back,Apex Production department,SUPER\QWERTY\KEYBOARDe\VM for /f "delims=" %%a in ("%script%") do echo %%~na This will display: VM So, getting the required values from y...