Quick question, just wondering...

[renzlo]

Hi All,

How do you escape double quotes (") in using findstr?

Example:

source.txt

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"Paul","Mike"

Search string is equal to:

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","[a-z]

findstr /ric:"","[a-z]" source.txt - this doesn't work
findstr /ric:"^",^"[a-z]" source.txt - doesn't work too

what else?

Thanks in advance.

[taripo]

findstr /? says
\x Escape: literal use of metacharacter x

Also, I guess /r and /c are things you wouldn't use together
and that you'd want /r 'cos regex.


C:\abc>findstr /ri ","[a-z] source.txt

C:\abc>findstr /ri ^",^"[a-z] source.txt

C:\abc>findstr /ri \",\"[a-z] source.txt <-- that's it!
"Paul","Mike"
C:\abc>

[renzlo]

thanks for the reply taripo.