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Excellent work, Steffen!

Just one question… what do you mean by ACP 1252 and OEMCP 850?

How can I have 2 different code pages active at once? If I chcp 1252, how can the code page be 850 at the same time?

Thanks!

- SB

aGerman wrote:

Replace all occurrences of WScript.Echo with WScript.StdOut.WriteLine

Thanks for the tip, Steffen!

But can you explain why replacing WScript.Echo with WScript.StdOut.WriteLine solves the umlaut problem?

- SB

Hello All! :) Thanks again to @penpen for his informative reply. And belated thanks to @npocmaka_, @pieh-ejdsch, and @aschipfl for their awesome versions of how to reverse a string. I must confess I can’t completely follow their approaches. Something about repeatedly halving the string and substitut...

Hello All! :) Sorry I haven't posted in a while. To borrow Harold Macmillan’s immortal line : Events, my dear boy, events. Anyways, here’s a little something I’ve been working on: @echo off & setLocal enableExtensions disableDelayedExpansion (call;) %= sets errorlevel to 0 =% set ^"toggled=AaAaBbBbC...

Five years?

RIP, Foxi.

Hi Compo, You can subscribe to the group via the website. Go to the Batchville Home Page , and click on the Join This Group button. Enter your email address in the form, and click on the Confirm Email Address button. You will receive an email from Groups.io with a link in it. Click on the link so th...

Hi Jerry,

The new group is hosted on Groups.io, not Yahoo! To subscribe, send an email with a blank subject line to:

batchville+subscribe@groups.io

See you there!

- SB

Hello All, Icymi, Yahoo! Groups is shutting down on Dec 15th . When YG goes, Batch World will go with it. BW is over 20 years old and has 1500+ members. Foxidrive was a regular contributor. :( I think BW’s imminent demise is a shame because it’s the only email discussion group I know of devoted to B...

Hi Samir!

To paraphrase Robbie Robertson, this is sure stirring up some ghosts for me.

Two things spring to mind. What code are you using? And are the HTML files in Unicode format?

TIA!

- SB

See also DT: Safely Expand Any Variable by Dave Benham.

Hello All!

I thought you might be interested in this post on the Windows Command Line blog:

Microsoft Open-Sources GW-Basic

Happy coding!

- SB

Hello All! Slightly OT, perhaps, but here goes… Placing content on the clipboard is severely restricted for security reasons. But there are workarounds. This SO Answer by Srikanth P provides a JScript solution that makes expert use of the Internet Explorer object. HTH! :) - SB PS: Just spotted a typ...

Hi Eureka! Welcome to the forum! :) Dave Benham explored this approach in the novel method to right-trim spaces topic back in January, 2012. :shock: As pointed out at the time, the method had too many shortcomings to ever be a general-purpose solution, and development ceased. But trimming leading an...

Hi Ed,

Doskit sounds amazing!

I’d love to try it out, but I’m running Windows 7.

What difficulty does Doskit have with Windows 7?

- SB

Hi Ed,

Is it a for /r bug? I remember reading somewhere that for /r can generate erroneous output under certain conditions. As usual, I can’t remember where I read it, sorry.

Maybe someone with a better memory (and a more organised bookmarks collection) can help you out.

Good luck!

- SB