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I have a string:



Question: how to remove quotes but ^^ should remain there. If I use %~ then one ^ gets removed.

Thanks,
Saso

Thanks Jeb. I did check that - but I admit - too complex for me. For now there is no solution.
This problem does not have a highest priority at the moment.

Thanks,
Saso

I agree with phillid.

aGerman was not doing anything wrong. He just warns against the 'file locked' conflict.

Saso

Hi all, I would like to echo a FORMFEED control code to a screen (or a file). echo X* causes me problems because NOTEPAD does not like x0C (wants to save a file in Unicode). If I save it as ANSI I get a plus (+) sign. * replace X with an ALT+12 on the numeric keypad so you get a FORMFEED control cod...

Replace



with



Saso

I would suggest using fc /b file1 file2 >nul 2>nul for this. I have a batch file for finding .pdf files from different (sub)folders and I compare them with .pdf files that are located in ONE folder only. But files in (sub)folders have different filenames than the one in ONE folder. I make a list of ...

aGerman always supplies complete answers. Maybe in one line you need this:



Hope this helps.

Saso

I hope Admin will do something about this. Phpbb forums are easy to hack (according to google searches).

The problem is that it is very easy to steal passwords from all of us.

It is never good to read such posts.

Saso

As you can see this forum got hacked (see user ReteddyOdor).

Admin, please take appropriate actions.

Saso

Speaking of explanations... Can somebody please explain these two things: set "line=..." What is the purpose of using a " (Quotation_mark) before the variable name? and set "line=echo.%%..." What is the purpose of the echo. command (besides echoing an empty line when by itse...

Thank you both.

I will check this tomorrow (it is late here).

I just want to extract a URL from the line above. The main problem is always with those special characters...

Thanks again.
Saso

Hi all, let's say we have a file tmp.tmp with the following records (there are some blanks (spaces) infront of the <a title): <a title="some text" href="http://some.site.com/somefile1.jpg" target="_blank">somefile1.jpg</a> This file contains some lines as above with som...

Hi all, here are two possibilites to determine the string's length. I hope you like them. First version sets a temporary variable and when it becomes undefined the counter determines the string's length. Of course string is passed as %1 (first parameter). @echo off set strorg=%~1 set strtmp= set /a ...

Can't a simple



do for you?

Saso