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Hi Steffen! Thanks for your helpful answer… and not pointing out the glaring error in my definition of inFile2 (now corrected). It didn’t occur to me that Exec runs commands asynchronously and that I had to wait for fc to finish. I did read the documentation, I just didn’t absorb it. Maybe it’s time...

Hello All! I wanted to compare 2 files using JScript to see if they were the same or not. I thought the Exec method’s ExitCode property would return 0 for yes, and 1 for no. But it always returns 0: @if (@X==@Y) @then @echo off & setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion cscript //nologo...

Hi Foxi, Thanks for your helpful suggestion and sorry for not replying sooner. I’ve been wracking my brains over this and I haven’t been able to come up with a practical solution. Ideally, I want to write robust code that will work on all versions of Windows and won’t be tripped up by gotchas like c...

Hi Doscode!

Maybe Dave Benham’s JREN.BAT can do what you want. Requires some knowledge of JavaScript regular expressions.

HTH!

- SB

Hi Foxi!

Sweden gave the world ABBA, Volvo, and Stieg Larsson.

We have Switzerland to thank for yodeling, cuckoo clocks, and Roger Federer.

Need I say more?

- SB

Hi Vasil, Sorry for the delay in replying. I was referring to the SO link Jeb mentioned in his reply to the OP. If I understand correctly, the following Registry keys are queried every time a for /f loop is executed: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun HKEY_CURRENT_USER\S...

Hi Guys! Fascinating discovery, but not even MS can ignore a security hole that big. No doubt it will be patched in an upcoming update. I’m more concerned with the AUTORUN issue, which I was unaware of until now. Short of querying the Registry to make sure the AUTORUN key is empty whenever I want to...

npocmaka wrote:



Excellent!

Aacini wrote:



Brilliant!

Hi John A!

Have a look at PrepMessage.cmd posted to alt.msdos.batch.nt by Frank P Westlake in January, 2013.

HTH!

- SB

Hello All! I’m just going to come right out and say it. I’m not happy with the revamped forum. I have several issues. First, I’m having difficulties loading the home page. Several attempts are usually required. I suspect the honking big Google Ads frame may have something to do with it. Next, the ‘V...

Hello Again! Below is my revised code for trimming whitespace from the start and end of a string: @echo off & setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion :: nasty str full of poison chars set ^"str= ^^^" ^^^&^^ ^&^"^& %%os%% !random! ^" :: double all quotes ...

Hi Jeb,

Thanks for the explanation, but I think I’ll stick with Dave Benham’s icall macro if I ever find myself in a situation where I’m forced to make extensive use of call set.

Cheers!

- SB

Hi Aacini!

I explored a findstr /no solution, but decided it was too messy. There’s no way to tell Unix and Windows line-endings apart, line numbers must be decremented, and what if the last line in the file happens to be the longest?

Cheers!

- SB

Hello Again! I returned to this problem after a long break with a fresh perspective. Sure enough, the only practical solution, imho, is a hybrid script: @if (@X==@Y) @then @echo off & setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion for /f "tokens=1,2" %%A in (' cscript //nologo //e:j...