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Thank jeb and foxidrive, you gave clear answers to me.

Hi keny456789, the main difference is that they split a line at different characters. If you only want to count, then you don't need to use the delim option at all. It's important when you have to look at each line like for /f "delims=:" %%a in (test1.txt) do ( echo %%a ) And in your file...

The looping codes below deal with text file. for /f "tokens=1 delims=:" %%i in ('findstr /n "^END" %text_file1%') do set count=%%i count line by line untill the line having "END" for /f "delims==" %%a in (%text_file1%) do set lastline=%%a store the lastline st...