Can anybody help me get portion of the text string inside the file? For Ex: FILENAME.EXT 1234WEEK01120603; I would like to get the 120603 from the content of the file and set a variable. How would I create the script? Thanks in advance.

Hi Ron Try this, you need to create oneline.com yourself and download varset.com from http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/ Type this into a text file and name it oneline.scr Note the blank line is a carriage return. --------------- n oneline.com a 100 mov ah,2 mov si,82 mov,dl,[si] cmp dl,d jz 113 mov ah,2 int 21 inc si jmp 105 mov ah,4c int 21 r cx 17 w q --------------- rem Create oneline.com debug < oneline.scr --------------- Download varset.com from http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/ Store online.com and varset.com in current directory or in your path, and run the batch file below. Change environment variables names as you wish. --------------- @echo off oneline set x=>tmp.bat type t.txt >>tmp.bat call tmp.bat varset xx=string(11,6) %x% >tmp.bat call tmp.bat echo %x% echo %xx% --------------- Any problems let me know.