Echo not working on lines which got 0 at end of line

[mohdfraz]

Hi,

When I run this below code Middle line is not Echo. any line which got 0 at the end creating issue. I have many files and on them all the lines which get 0 at the end does not get Echo from batch file. Any suggestions what to fix this issue?

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Echo Started>Test.txt
Echo REPEAT : 3 : 0 : 0 : Enter the number of iterations: : 0 : 0>>Test.txt
Echo Finished>>Test.txt

Currently I am doing work around.

Run the code like this

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Echo Started>Test.txt
Echo REPEAT : 3 : 0 : 0 : Enter the number of iterations: : 0 : *0>>Test.txt
Echo Finished>>Test.txt

once files are generated then i use TextCrawler for find and replace command. But Echo should work. Why it is not working? Any idea?

I am using windows xp

Thanks

[npocmaka_]

try with:

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Echo REPEAT : 3 : 0 : 0 : Enter the number of iterations: : 0 : 0 1>>Test.txt

What I think is happening here is you're trying to redirect the 0 stream (stdin) to the file.
Setting 1 before the file redirection will redirect the 1 (stdout ) to the file.

[foxidrive]

Here are two methods: the first one needs some characters to be escaped with ^ as in ^)

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(
Echo Started
Echo REPEAT : 3 : 0 : 0 : Enter the number of iterations: : 0 : 0
Echo Finished
)>Test.txt

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>Test.txt  Echo Started
>>Test.txt Echo REPEAT : 3 : 0 : 0 : Enter the number of iterations: : 0 : 0
>>Test.txt Echo Finished

[mohdfraz]

try with:

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Echo REPEAT : 3 : 0 : 0 : Enter the number of iterations: : 0 : 0 1>>Test.txt

What I think is happening here is you're trying to redirect the 0 stream (stdin) to the file.
Setting 1 before the file redirection will redirect the 1 (stdout ) to the file.

npocmaka_
Thank you...........

Here are two methods: the first one needs some characters to be escaped with ^ as in ^)

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(
Echo Started
Echo REPEAT : 3 : 0 : 0 : Enter the number of iterations: : 0 : 0
Echo Finished
)>Test.txt

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>Test.txt  Echo Started
>>Test.txt Echo REPEAT : 3 : 0 : 0 : Enter the number of iterations: : 0 : 0
>>Test.txt Echo Finished

foxidrive
Thank you..........

I have also figure out a solution, I added a Space between "0" and ">" and it worked.

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Echo Started>Test.txt
Echo REPEAT : 3 : 0 : 0 : Enter the number of iterations: : 0 : 0 >>Test.txt
Echo Finished>>Test.txt

Thanks

[foxidrive]

I have also figure out a solution, I added a Space between "0" and ">" and it worked.

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Echo Started>Test.txt
Echo REPEAT : 3 : 0 : 0 : Enter the number of iterations: : 0 : 0 >>Test.txt
Echo Finished>>Test.txt

As a programmer you will soon realise that adding whitespace to the end of a line is not a good way to process files simply to get around this redirection issue.

Text in CSV files, and INI files can all be broken by adding whitespace when the program reading the files doesn't expect it.

[mohdfraz]

As a programmer you will soon realise that adding whitespace to the end of a line is not a good way to process files simply to get around this redirection issue.

Text in CSV files, and INI files can all be broken by adding whitespace when the program reading the files doesn't expect it.

Agreed,,,,,, Thats why I was trying to avoid space but Its just an way around for my this issue only. But I think I will use your bracket tip, that is much better and secure way to avoid any confusions.

Thank you.

[miskox]

Sometimes it is better to do it like this:

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>>test.txt (Echo REPEAT : 3 : 0 : 0 : Enter the number of iterations: : 0 : 0)

Saso