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omg.. I would never be able to do this on my own, penpen (reading this, Squashman? ). And it even works under Win 7 I hope this stuff didn't keep you from sleeping? Does this escape all known (to-be-escaped) characters or is there more to it? I still have to learn a lot, but thanks to you (and other...

For the record: I'm trying to parse a json file that can hold escaped strings/characters I don't think FINDSTR /R will work as i've noticed that strings can have [ ] brackets as well, where /R would see them as a RegEx Character class. With Disable DelayedExpansion all characters are preserved, but...

Probably help if you spent a little more time on the forums reading some of the questions and solutions and assisting when you can instead of being gone for months and years at a time. True. But you must know that i've been googling A LOT and have been on many sites before i came here. Perhaps i co...

Hmm.. i've been testing the code on a collection of json profiles, but i've run into a parsing problem where a profile has escaped double quotes in it (i totally forgot about this ) partly content of the json file: { "profiles": { "\"test\"": { "name": "\...

Oh my, you're a walking encyclopedia/handbook

I greatly appreciate what you did penpen, this truly helps me a lot (where to give +rep?)

Thanks

How about this: FOR /F "delims=" %%L in ('!SystemPath!FINDSTR /IC:"\"selectedProfile\": \"^" "!PROFILES!"') do (IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 ECHO FOUND) "!SystemPath!FINDSTR" /IC:"\"selectedProfile\": \"^" "!PROFILES!"...

Thanks foxidrive for the quick answer/solution. I'm only afraid your code isn't strict enough, as you used some wildcards (.) which will make any character pass through as valid. To decrease the chance of false-positives, "selectedProfile": " should be treated as a literal search stri...

Greetings DosTips addicts After hours of trial-and-error i've (once again) come to this place to hopefully get an explanation or solution for my FINDSTR batch troubles. I have a script that has both CommandExtensions and DelayedExpansion enabled. The purpose of the script is to search through a file...

One more question: Is it (also) possible to search for strings that are enclosed with double quotes? I didn't knew it wouldn't take these into account otherwise i would've mentioned it in the first place Thanks edit: I've found a solution by doing "\"%__PATTERN__%\"" but i'm not ...

That did the job for me! Thanks a lot aGerman! ps: i could've responded sooner, but i was playing around with the script/code and tried to modify it further to make it smaller, but i don't think that's possible =P Doing the same (or more) with less code is cool but can be tricky (e'specially for bat...

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Greetings everyone, I was looking for a script to do some RegEx string searching and found the following one at: - m @echo off set recurse= if "%~1%~2"=="%~1" goto :EOF if "%~3"=="" (set count=0 & %0 %1 %2 %2) for /f "delims=" %%f in ('findstr /m...

hmm, too bad you aren't in the mood to assist me with that ERRORLEVEL-madness

ok, back on-topic: I've made some progress with my script in regards to getting the expected errorlevels. The mistake was that i ECHOed the path, instead of testing it (facepalm). The below code works, and it even checks/removes trailing spaces, since those would simply echo the current state of ECH...

Of course that will only work if Java is installed to the default location. Not all of my users (including me) have Java installed there. Some of them don't even know where Java is (pre)installed. For that reason i've created a script, but because i'm getting unexpected/the wrong ERRORLEVEL results ...