If findstr first charatcter

[Costy]

Hi everyone I have this code:

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$ linetoselect sasa
asdlaldsalda
ld
als
alds
lda
lds
l
linetoselect sasa
akdskadkskdsadk
askdskdak
ksadkakd
adkpskdak
aksds
$ linetoselect
sdsad
sda
sdad
adsa


linetoselect ssa
sda
kksk
kkk
awda
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I would write a batch code doing the following step
If the first character of (Findstr /n /c: linetoselect ) = "$" else >> file.txt

At the end of the code I would have a file.txt where only linetoselect not starting with $ are reported


Could anyone help me?

[ShadowThief]

As long as linetoselect lines won't contain $ anywhere other than the start of the line, you can search for linetoselect and then pipe that to a second findstr that finds lines that don't contain $

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findstr /n /c:"linetoselect" raw_data.txt | findstr /v /c:"$" >>file.txt

Note that I've assumed the data is in a file called raw_data.txt.

[Costy]

Thanks a lot for your help it works and in order to consider only $ at the beginning of the line it needs add /b.
Thanks a lot. Best regards