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Hi All, I want to split below contents of source.txt, 0.99Flakes in oil 2.99Safe Guard 0.0035Fleeming 12.999Tissue Holder 123.25-Oasis 1245.88 Amnna The numbers are price and the alpha are product name: I want the output to be like this(tab delimited): Price Product Name 0.99 Flakes in oil 2.99 Safe...

thanks ocalabob, ill try that.

I have created a batch program that will detect a certain file and write a log report. I have set it up as a listening program using "if exist" and "timeout" commands. It is 98% complete, but I'm stucked with this problem, I tried everything I know and still I can't figure it out...

Hi All, I have created a batch file that monitors a specified directory, and I did it with the functions that I want(I am monitoring a zip file). Here's my script: :check if exist "*.zip" (goto process) else (goto end) :process my commands here :end timeout /nobreak 180>nul goto check Now ...

try using blat, http://www.blat.net

@dave, your given code is not working due to dash (-) that you have declared in variable main, i have modified it and got it working, thanks a bunch. setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for /f "tokens=1 delims=" %%a in ('dir /ad /b "*."') do ( set "main=%%a" for /f "to...

Hi Dave,

thanks for the reply, but the batch only outputted the !main!.

I think you misunderstood me Dave, I have a folder with this name 00004569 and inside that folder are 00004569_001, 00004569_002 and 00004569_003 subfolders, you can see it in my code.

Hi All, I have directory with structure like this: 00004569 - 00004569_001 00004569_002 00004569_003 I want to write it in a text file so I did this: setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for /f "tokens=1 delims=" %%a in ('dir /b "*."') do ( set "main=%%a" for /f "tokens...

thanks for the reply taripo.

Hi All, How do you escape double quotes (") in using findstr? Example: source.txt "Paul","Mike" Search string is equal to: ","[a-z] findstr /ric:"","[a-z]" source.txt - this doesn't work findstr /ric:"^",^"[a-z]" source.txt -...

this might help you:

http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2066

try this

thanks Dave for enlightening me. Thanks a lot.

thanks for the reply Dave, but what if my text file has a line that have spaces in the start of the line that I want to preserve?

try adding this to the last line of your code:

taskkill /f /im "cmd.exe"