Re: [OT] - CMD Scripting Help

[MacNewbie <macnewbie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Glenn,

You're a hero and a gent!

Many Thanks
Don


On 15 Sep 2005, at 13:13, Sullivan, Glenn wrote:

> Here you go:
>
> for /f "tokens=*" %%i in (file.txt) do call :noquotes %%i
> pause
> goto eof
>
> :NoQuotes
>  rem %1 = Current Filename
>  SET @Line=%~1
>  echo %@Line% >>NewFile.txt
>  GOTO :EOF
>
> :EOF
>
> This will read "file.txt" and create
"NewFile.txt", stripping the
> quotes
> from the beginning and end of each line.
>
>
> Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA
> David Clark Company Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of MacNewbie
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:41 AM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] - CMD Scripting Help
>
> Ok, so while the list is quiet can anyone point me in the right
> direction to accomplish this?
>
> I've got a straightforward text file on a Windows 2000 server box
> containing a line
>
> "This is a line of text"
>
> How do I process the file using a CMD file (and whatever internal
> commands are available in Windows 2000) to strip out the leading and
> trailing quotation marks and just leave the text? They'll probably
> only
> be the single line of text in the file.
>
> I'm sure there's a really easy way to do it but I haven't figured
> it out
> yet!
>
> Any help greatfully received.
>
> Cheers
> Don
>
>
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