I'd really appreciate if anyone could tell me how i can create a BATCH script that will take a list of all files in a directory, strip the extension off of each file, and then use the resulting filename w/o extension in a calculation. 1)I dont know how to pipe the file names into the BATCH, as a replacable parameter, one at a time. 2)I dont know how to take a filename and strip off the extension. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!! Thanks!!!

Hi, cls @echo off if %1!==}{! goto pass2 for %%a in (*.ZIP) do call %0 }{ %%a goto end :pass2 echo %2 >my.dat if not exist tzmp md tzmp >nul stripstr /s.ZIP my.dat new.dat type new.dat >> tzmp\finish.dat :end Strip string is a small program. Let me know via email if you want a copy. Method 2 cls @echo off if %1!==}{! goto pass2 for %%a in (*.*) do call %0 }{ %%a goto end :pass2 if not exist tzmp md tzmp >nul copy %1 tzmp cd tzmp ren %2 *. cd.. :end The above is the easier of the two. Both of these were written on the fly so.... you may have to debug a little. I dont know how you intend to use them, but getting the extension off a file is easy. You might also try dir/B my.txt then use a string search to get rid of all .* whatevers as well. Hope this of some help. I dont bite just byte so dont be afraid to ask.....no gaurantee I know the answer but you never know. Peace Goodwill and Happy Computing World Library