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It most certainly does work. Here is the output. Copy and paste the code for yourself. " ABC:0|Output inc.|SOFTWARE VER|v1.1|123|ALLOFMYDATAISFROMTHISPOINTONWARDSANDDOESNOTCONTAINANYSPECIALCHARS" If it does not work in your situation then you haven't supplied real life data to see where i...

It most certainly does work. Here is the output. Copy and paste the code for yourself. " ABC:0|Output inc.|SOFTWARE VER|v1.1|123|ALLOFMYDATAISFROMTHISPOINTONWARDSANDDOESNOTCONTAINANYSPECIALCHARS" If it does not work in your situation then you haven't supplied real life data to see where i...

set var=123456 Set newvar=%var:~2,4% echo %newvar% should give me 3456 (i think) Here is my problem, i have a string of about 100 digits where the first 46 are not needed, however it contains <>. When i do the above to split it up a bit, it doesnt work. This will work to set the variable. set "...

Brilliant, however i missed something - 6th field onwards... there are about 9 or 10 fields..

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set var=123456 Set newvar=%var:~2,4% echo %newvar% should give me 3456 (i think) Here is my problem, i have a string of about 100 digits where the first 46 are not needed, however it contains <>. When i do the above to split it up a bit, it doesnt work. Thu Mar 28 00:00:51 2013: <456>Mar 28 00:02:43...

Found a solution, gpg, it allows you to encrypt the file(s) just by specifying a name - to decrypt them you have to provide the key for the certificate.

Best of all, it's free

not really a batch file question as such, but.. has anyone had the need to encrypt data from the command line using public/private keys or similar? The issue is the password being in the batch file, i need to find some way of encrypting some data from the command line using a password (stored in the...

ok, one last stab at it. I'd post images of the real stuff but it contains sensitive information. This is as close to the real scenario i can get.. The actual email contains some detail about things set, file locations and suffixes etc, then the output of an FTP session. the final part is checking b...

What would this have to do with Outlook when you were using Bmail and Blat? blat/bmail send the file via smtp as the body of an email. Outlook is where i am reading it. yes I realize what Bmail and Blat do. You just made it sound like your script issue was an issue with Outlook. well the issue is w...

Squashman wrote:What would this have to do with Outlook when you were using Bmail and Blat?

blat/bmail send the file via smtp as the body of an email. Outlook is where i am reading it.

blat has the same end scenario. the issue i believe is outlook and something called 'extra line breaks' doubtful i'll ever get to the bottom of the issue, but i stick by what i posted yesterday. I have a text file thats been ouput, it contains about 40 lines. the first 30 format 100% correct in the ...

Text sent to a file during normal "Echo" has ".." or "0D 0A" (CR/LF) Text sent directly after using findstr has " .." or "20 0D 0A" (space CR/LF) Can't relate this to your previous code directly. But in case it matters, note that the 'echo' line car...

After much trawling the net before and after my previous post i happened upon a forum that suggested putting spaces in front of the data would break this habit.. findstr somethig.... Echo test >> myfile.txt Echo test >> myfile.txt results is: test test Which is better than test test

This is still driving me up the wall!! but i've found a difference using a hex editor. Sample text from the file during normal echo 4A 61 6E 20 31 30 20 30 36 3A 33 32 3A 33 37 20 Jan 10 06:32:37 32 30 30 30 0D 0A 43 6F 6E 6E 65 63 74 65 64 20 2000..Connected Sample text from the file after using fi...