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Posted: **01 Jul 2018 21:48**

Bonjour everyone.
I'm having a problem with findstr right now. I have some text like this:

:::. Path is
:::. Your name is
:::. Folder is

And I use this to output the text.

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FOR /F "tokens=* delims=:." %%H in (findstr /bl :::. "%~f0"') do @echo %%H

It works fine. At the top, I also have this code:

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SET PATH=%~dp0Files
IF not exist "%PATH%" (
    MKDIR %PATH%&CALL :MAKEFILES
)

For some reason, when I run it alone, the findstr command works fine. But when I add the above block of code, I get "The system cannot find the file findstr" and its wracking my brain why it doesn't work. When I take out the above code, however, it works perfectly fine. Any help is greatly appreciated

Posted: **01 Jul 2018 22:46**

Hello J'aitreschaud and welcome to this forum.
If the findstr statement is working out of loop, then you probably just missed one character within the for loop (untested):

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FOR /F "tokens=* delims=:." %%H in ('findstr /bl :::. "%~f0"') do @echo %%H

penpen

Posted: **02 Jul 2018 06:24**

You are overwriting the system PATH variable. When you did that, it can no longer execute the FINDSTR command because the location of the FINDSTR command is searched for within the system PATH variable.

Posted: **02 Jul 2018 10:36**

@penpen Thanks

@Sqaushman Your solution worked! Thank you so much

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