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Very cool!
Here is my chessboard sample:

But I've noticed the border width from top/bottom are not the same as left/right.
Could you fix that?

Here are some of the useful batch scripts that I've found pretty handy: Encrypt username / password? http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7428 Compare two files and send common strings to another file http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7421 js/vbs/html/hta and more ...

thefeduke wrote:This would work if the DOS window had been started with delayed environment variable expansion enabled.
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John A.

This will do the trick:

Or you could do in 2 lines:

"fnLib.bat" @echo off rem Limited up to 9 parameters goto %~1 %~2 %~3 %~4 %~5 %~6 %~7 %~8 %~9 :IsPingable comp ret setlocal for /f "tokens=2" %%a in ( '"ping -a -n 1 -4 "%~2" | Find "Pinging" 2>nul"') do set name=%%a endlocal & set %~3=%name% pin...

Another way without the need to provide the line index is like this: "text_replace.bat" @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion cls echo input.txt: ( echo Batch echo is echo dumb ) > input.txt type input.txt echo. for /f "delims=:" %%a in ('type input.txt ^|findstr /nc:^"%...

This batch file make use of a temp file. ::"text_replace.bat" @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion cls echo input.txt: ( echo Batch echo is echo dump ) > input.txt type input.txt echo. set count=0 ( for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('type input.txt') do ( set /a count+=1 if !count! ...

This use the "strlen.exe" utility from Aacini http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3428&p=17101&hilit=strlen.hex#p17101 @echo off set Total_Dirs=0 for /f %%a in ('dir /b /ad') do set /a Total_Dirs+=1 setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set Files=0 for /f %%a in ('dir /b...

You're absolutely right, my default background is blue that's why I could not see the highligted color (still in blue), I've changed it to 2 (green) and it's working fine now. Thanks for explaining and for a wonderful tool.

I have a question though, when running this batch file and using the cursor to move around, I don't know where the cursor is at since the file is not highlighted as the cursor move around, besides just the index number is updated, but I have no clue what file the cursor is at. It would be nice to ha...

What's wrong with it? The issue is located in this line: set "MYVAR=[!line[%%f]!!space:~0,!x[%%f]!!]" You cannot use delayed expanded values within the same delayed expansion step, because the exclamation marks ('!') are used to define these variables. In your case the processor is readin...

You could use somethinig like this: @echo off set textvar=some text set textvar=%textvar% &rem 50 spaces set textvar=%textvar:~0,50% echo length 1 2 3 4 5 6_ echo length _123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890_ echo textvar=_%textvar%_ Output c:\ length 1 2 3 4 5 6_ length...

I've tried to fill blank spaces to the end of all filenames in a directory to make all of them with a 50 characters long. Here is my batch file: @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set i=0 for /f %%a in ('dir /b') do ( set /a i+=1 set "line[!i!]=%%a" strlen line[!i!] set /a fs=50-!er...