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@orange_batch sorry but the code fails with the sample input file, because it strips the leading ]] in line 6. The delims=] doesn't work if ] could be also the first char in the input file. You could changed it to line=!line:*]=! to remove the beginning. @echo off setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion se...

Hi lostpenan, this batch should work (secure also with < and > ) @echo off setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion set "search=FILEPATH" set "replace=C:\temp" del output.txt for /F "delims=" %%a in (xml.tmp) DO ( set line=%%a setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion >> output.txt echo(...

Hi, you can test with this snippet, it should work @echo off setlocal set var1=one set var2=this is two call :swapvars var1 var2 echo var1=%var1% echo var2=%var2% goto :eof :swapvars setlocal call set "x=%%%~2%%" endlocal&call set "%~2=%%%~1%%"&set "%~1=%x%" exi...

Good thought, I suppose this way could be successful. But two problems. 1. As long as DelayedExpansion is active over a for loop, you got problems with exclamation marks and carets. set "Teststring=caret^ and !" the "!" and the "^" are removed in the %%y expansion. This...

Yes, it works if you put and escape the content in a variable. But it is not possible to build a string with special characters and make a call, the expansion have to be on the last call level. All these variants will fail call echo 0 one & two call echo 1 one ^& two call echo 2 one ^^& ...

Ok, nice A call is time intensive (nearly 20times slower than delayed expansion), and it have some nice unexpected side effects. And do you can explain this @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set "singleCaret=^" set "^=One caret" set "^^=Two carets" call echo 1: ...

Hi karzer,

test the content of IP



jeb

Hi, amel27 introduced the problem of replacing "=", ":", "*" or "~" signs. It is obvious that replacing an equal is tricky, because it is also the delim for the part of original to replace text. So this doesn't work ( try to replace "=" with "#&...

Ok replacing the "=" and ":" are also interesting issues (in my humble opinion).

Therefore, I open a new thread for it.

jeb

Ok, there is a solution without delayed expansion, but it's much more complicated. And a real solution should solve all variants of your tests with only one code. I suppose a test case could be something like @echo off setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion FOR /F "delims=" %%a in (file_inp.txt)...

Hi, As I just discovered, you can write and read properly a UTF-8 file under codepage 65001, but as usual for is unable to see the unicode from type. Strangely, you can paste unicode into for fine though. Redirection doesn't work either... type must do some kind of look-up when doing unicode that fo...

Hi darioit, This should work. @echo off setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion FOR /F "delims=" %%a in (file_inp.txt) do set "name=%%a" &call :procName goto:eof :procName setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion >> file_out.txt echo(!name! endlocal goto :eof Your problem was that after the ...

In this example it is easy with toggling the delayed expansion, because the content is only echo'd.

But if you want to keep the value(s), it's quite more tricky, because the endlocal destroys the variables again.

jeb

Hi vltreude, as Masiosare and orange_batch explained, the delayed expansion is a good way to solve your problem. But there could be problems with carets "^" and exclamation marks "!" If in your text are these characters, you will lose the exclamation marks and, if at least one ex...

Hi Azrooh,

this should work


hope it helps