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Sorry about that here's what I did: @echo off SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS SETLOCAL DISABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION set file=oldfile.txt set "?=!?:/=!" set "?=!?:-=!" set "?=!?:\=!" set "?=!?: =!" set "?=!?:,=!" set "?=!?:.=!" set "?=!?::=!"...

Hi thanks for your replies.
@aGerman Sadly I cannot use the code you suggested since my lines exceed 1021 characters. Thanks anyway.

@Ed I tried putting that code near the top of my program and it had no effect. Am I using it incorrectly? Thanks

Unfortunately that's not an option; is there any way to do it with just the batch file? It works fine for other files but the moment I hit "< or &# it doesn't know what to do. Was there ever a workaround for this?

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I need to make a .bat file that finds and replaces a few words. I can do this just fine, but the file I am reading contains: "< ............. &# (ignore the periods, just they just separate the two sets of characters) when it reads these two special characters, it cannot process them and si...