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- SB

Hi Steffen, Brilliant workaround for ensuring Unicode I/O. 8) But please explain this line: for /f "tokens=2,6 delims={:," %%a in ('type "foo.tmp~"') do echo %%a*%%b Why all the tokens and delims, and why the asterisk between %%a and %%b? And why use TYPE inside the in (...) clause of the for /f loo...

Hi nnnmmm,

Here’s an old trick I learnt from Jeb:
Read this SO Q&A for the full story.

Ho ho ho!

- SB

Hello All,

npocmaka outlines a locale-independent method for capturing the current date and time using makeCab in the second answer to this SO Question.

I don’t know why it isn’t used more widely.

HTH!

- SB

Hi All,

Ed Dyreen and Dave Benham discussed capturing the backspace character in the Send Backspace Key in Batch topic as far back as 2012.

HTH!

- SB

Hello All! :) Slightly off topic, but I thought some of you DOS veterans might be interested in this. SF author Robert J Sawyer has put together a WordStar archive . For those of you who don’t know, WordStar was a much loved word processor that predates Word and even Windows itself. The archive incl...

Hi Saso,

Try this one-liner:
Only works for CR-LF (Windows) files, and not LF (Unix) files.

HTH!

- SB

Hi Shodan! :) This has been on my to-do list for a long time. Your post finally spurred me into action. Searching the web yielded nothing. There are plenty of range generators, but no code examples. No matter, a straightforward problem… or so I thought until I tried to write the program. It proved t...

Hi Shodan,

Please read:

• Return Any String Across endLocal Boundary
• ReplVar.bat: Regex Search and Replace for Variables

Hope this helps!

- SB

Hi Shodan,

Very ambitious! But what is your use-case? And why are you re-inventing the wheel? Just pass the string to JScript or PowerShell in an environment variable, let it chop up the string any way you want, and capture the output in an for /f loop.

Laters!

- SB

Hi Samson,

Have you tried opening cmd.exe and running the batch file from the command line?

Hope this helps!

- SB

Hi Shodan, There should indeed be a terminating endLocal somewhere after the end of the for /f loop. Delayed expansion is explicitly disabled to prevent any ^ and ! characters in the line of input from being corrupted. But once the line has been read into the variable, delayed expansion can be safel...

Hi Shodan,

I refer you to Jeb’s answer to SO: How to Read a File.

HTH!

- SB

Hi Shodan,

I’m not sure what you’re trying to accomplish, but I suggest you read Calling Functions from a Library, especially Post #4 by Penpen.

HTH!

- SB

Hello All! :) A little proof-of-concept program I put together: @echo off & setLocal enableExtensions disableDelayedExpansion (call;) %= sets errorLevel to 0 =% for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ('chcp') do for %%B in (%%A) do set "cp=%%~nB" mode con cp select=437 >nul ((for /l %%I in (1 1 70) do pause) >nul...