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Hello All! Imagine a test file called hi.txt with the contents “hi there” (no quotes and no newline). It’s possible to print out the characters of the file one by one using a little trick I learnt from Judago : cmd /d /u /c type hi.txt | find /v "" h i t h e r e This would be extremely use...

Hi Thlockler, Sorry for not replying sooner. I was on my holidays! Anyways, I don’t fully understand your question. The script makes two connections to the ftp host. On the first pass, it builds a list of all files matching the findstr pattern. On the second pass, it downloads only those files that ...

Building on what I learnt from Dave Benham’s demonstration of escaping special characters inside a for /f loop’s in (…) clause , and Aacini’s use of a for /l loop called by a cmd subshell to emulate a while loop , I’ve cobbled together an alternative method for reversing a string that does not requi...

Thanks for the explanation, Jeb!

- SB

Thanks Penpen and Dave! In the second example, multiple parameter separators (, ; = <SP> and <TAB>) are indeed replaced with a single space… but not dots. Note that if you quote the string, any leading whitespace and the opening quote itself will be stripped away and the rest of the string will be d...

Thanks Penpen…

Edit: Please read revised code.

- SB

Hi All!

Below is an alternative technique for trimming leading and trailing spaces and tabs from a string…

Edit: Please read revised code.

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Dear DosTips, I came across something puzzling while researching an alternative method of trimming whitespace (spaces and/or tabs) from the head and tail of a string. To trim any whitespace on the left of a string, simply do this: for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ("%string%") do set &quo...

Hello Sambasiva!

I recommend the find or findstr prompt issue topic. See my contribution at the end.

If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

- SB

Hello Flora! This line of code is a clever but ugly hack: SET v=%v:;=&rem.% It has the effect of discarding everything in the string after the first occurrence of semi-colon (inclusive). It is the opposite of: SET v=%v:*;=% which removes everything before the first occurrence of a semi-colon (se...

Hi Again! I tinkered with your version of the FTP script and eventually got it to work: @Echo Off & setlocal enableextensions Set "FtpCommand=ls" Call:extractFileSection "[Ftp Script 1]" "-">"%temp%\%~n0.ftp" Set "FileList=" For /F "Delims=&...

Hello VVomble!

Um… what’s wrong with… ?



Or am I missing something? And why are you using set /p? What are you trying to achieve? Please explain your task in more detail.

- SB

Hi Again!

Please post your source code. Trim comments and remove usernames and passwords. But one thing I did notice—and this is a long shot—is a missing quote before the ls command.

Good luck!

- SB

Hi CastorTroy! FindStr regular expressions are different from wildcard patterns. Try something like this: set FindStrArgs=/x "..*\...*" The above should output only filenames containing at least one dot. If it doesn’t, let me know. If that isn’t what you need, again get back to me and we’l...

Hi Again!

Have you tried The CD Forum? The site is devoted to bootable CDs and boasts no less than 8 subforums. Surely one of the gurus there will be able to help you. And when he/she does, please come back and let us know what pearls of wisdom were bestowed on you.

- SB