Please help! i want to rename hundreds of files from my local directory by getting a string from the file. for example: filename: abc123.edi i want to rename it to inlcude the string from inside the file. The file contains a line with FTM+123456 BGM+123+987654321 DGN+987+AAA i want to get 987654321 from the line of BGM then append it to the end of the file. the final filename should look like: abc123.edi.987654321 then proceed with the next file! please help!! if something will go wrong, it will go wrong.

I could help but my post will be erased as this Forum is for plain DOS only and you require a NT (XP) batch solution. So post in the Programming Forum and you will get what you need.

Assuming ypu're using NT... [this won't fly in DOS] ============ renEDI.bat @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/a-d *.edi') do ( for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%f in ('type %%a ^|find "BGM"') do ( for /f "tokens=3 delims=+" %%s in ('echo %%f') do ( ren %%a %%a.%%s ) ) ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2