need help with batch file to edit two text files

[jjlyon]

thank you so much for your help

[jjlyon]

hi again, i have another problem. since this is a similar problem i thought i would post it under this topic.

i need a batch file that can combine the text in two different txt files into one. for example

name.txt
tony
josh
tom

Size.txt
Large
Small

and then combine the text into:

total.txt
tony Large
Josh Small
tom

as shown not all text will have something to combine with but it will still need to be copied over to the total.txt.
also if possible i would like there to be a space between each combine however no space to appear after non combined text or after combined text (if that is not possible that will be fine as long as there are no spaces anywhere but for the ones that ware originally in the text (such as 'tony smith' or 'very large')

any help would be greatly appreciated!

kind regards
Josh

[Endoro]

You should show more examples from your text files.

[foxidrive]

This will do as the OP asked - he can get back to us with more info if it fails.

! characters will cause an issue.

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@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
<Size.txt (
for /f "delims=" %%a in (name.txt) do (
set "var="
set /p "var="
if defined var set "var= !var!"
>>total.txt echo %%a!var!
)
)

[jjlyon]

that works great thanks foxidrive!
sorry Endoro, in future ill show more examples