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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...

Hi SIMMS7400,

You may want to read the Mask Password with Asterisk topic.

- SB

Hi Squashman! I didn’t know that about robocopy. Good to know, thanks! 8) Gussy, don’t use the "command && success || failure" syntax with robocopy. Follow the example on the SS64 web page referenced by Squashman. Make sure you start with the highest errorLevel and work your way down to the lowest. ...

Hi Gussy! :) If a command executes successfully, it sets errorLevel to 0, a non-zero integer otherwise. There’s an easy way to test for this and to take appropriate action. The syntax goes a little something like this: command && ( success ) || ( failure ) So, your code example would be rewritten as...

Hi Again! :) I updated my split string to characters code based on Jeb’s nested for loops technique : @echo off & setLocal enableExtensions disableDelayedExpansion set "hex=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F" set str="!%%^&*~|<>?" set "chr=" & set "N=0" setLocal enableDelayedExpansion if not defined st...

Hi Jeb! :) You wrote: The trick is to nest multiple FOR-Loops, each with a low counting number, like FOR /L %%# in (1 1 16) do ( FOR /L %%# in (1 1 16) do ( FOR /L %%# in (1 1 16) do ( FOR /L %%# in (1 1 16) do ( ... the loop code is here REM Stop the code by goto :break ) ) ) ) :break Obviously thi...

Hi Mike!

Please read the following posts:

• How does the Windows rename command interpret wildcards? (Super User)
• JREN.BAT v2.8 - Rename files/folders using regular expressions (DosTips)

Both written by the legendary Dave Benham.

HTH!

- SB

Hi Xiro!

Please read this Microsoft Community thread.

HTH!

- SB

Hi Batch Newbie!

Please read dbenham’s answer to this Stack Overflow
Question.

HTH!

- SB

Hi Gizibo!

Please read this post (#32) by Aacini.

Once you have the folder chosen by the user stored in a variable (eg, %folderName%), you can open a File Explorer window at that location by doing the following:
HTH!

- SB

Hi Again! :) Belated thanks to Aacini and T3RRY for their excellent contributions. Below is my final word on the topic—a Batch/JScript hybrid: @if (@X==@Y) @then :: Batch @echo off & setLocal enableExtensions disableDelayedExpansion set ^"strFwd=short ^" ^< %% ^| ^^ ! string^" set "strRev=" & for /f...

Hello All! :) Forgive me for going off topic, but I’m in a bind. I accidentally deleted 3 weeks worth of WhatsApp messages and media, and I want them restored. No WhatsApp or iCloud backup, nada. :oops: I tried something called Phone Rescue. It could show me the deleted messages. So they are still o...

Excellent work, Steffen!

Just one question… what do you mean by ACP 1252 and OEMCP 850?

How can I have 2 different code pages active at once? If I chcp 1252, how can the code page be 850 at the same time?

Thanks!

- SB

aGerman wrote:

Replace all occurrences of WScript.Echo with WScript.StdOut.WriteLine

Thanks for the tip, Steffen!

But can you explain why replacing WScript.Echo with WScript.StdOut.WriteLine solves the umlaut problem?

- SB

Hello All! :) Thanks again to @penpen for his informative reply. And belated thanks to @npocmaka_, @pieh-ejdsch, and @aschipfl for their awesome versions of how to reverse a string. I must confess I can’t completely follow their approaches. Something about repeatedly halving the string and substitut...