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hi, Thank you so much for the help. it is greatly appreciated. I'm posting below my solution (combination of different solutions): for /f "tokens=1,* delims=[]" %%a in (' find /n /v "" ^< "%LocalDir%\software_list.txt" ') do ( echo "%%b"|findstr /i /c:"Mi...

unfortunately, it is indeed
apologies for the troubles.

sure, What I'm actually trying to do is to read from a file (list.txt) and capture a line that matches with at least one of other 3 lines I already know, but doesn't match with specific another one. That's kind of done. I wan to capture the line I need (matches) in a global var as well as its line n...

ok, I think I managed to figure out part of the solution: @echo off set "found=" for /f "tokens=1,* delims=[]" %%a in (' find /n /v "" ^< "%LocalDir%\list.txt" ') do ( echo "%%b"|findstr /i /c:"one two small" /c:"one two birds" /c...

awesome... it works the only thing I cannot really figure out is how to set var1=%%b and var2=%%a, because I want to use them later. when I try to do this as follow: if defined found ( echo %%a found set var1=%%a set var2=%%b ) else ( echo %%a NOT FOUND ) nothing actually is stored in var1 and var2....

hi guys, I'm trying to find a way to do the following: I'm reading from a file that has the following structure: "one two small flowers" "one two small red apples" "one two birds singing" "one two strings bla" I'm reading line by line and I want to find out if...

hi foxidrive,

Thank you so much for the suggestion. I think I can use it

as for the "Thank you in advance" - it has become more of a habit writing this down...

Have a lovely day,
Gerry

hi,

I need to split the following directory on its parts:
C:\folder1\folder2\folder3\folder4\ (I don't know in advance how long will the path be)
and to take folder4 and folder3 (the last two folders) in a variables.

Hope anyone can help me?
Thank you in advance,
Gerry