Need help on this matter. I have INPUT file contains unformatting date & time as below: 020717001200 What i want is to format this date & time to by inserting '/' and ':' to another OUTPUT file and the data will be like this: 17/07/0200:12:00 Please..soebody help me. Thanks in advance rohaza

In Win9x, this should do it: ===== BATCH SCRIPT BEGIN ===== @echo off if "%1"=="GoTo:" %1%2 echo e100'SET %%1='> %TEMP%.\T.BAT for %%? in (rcx 7 w q) do echo %%?>> %TEMP%.\T.BAT type %TEMP%.\T.BAT |DEBUG %TEMP%.\T.BAT > nul :: Set INPUT file below (you might use %1) type INPUT.EXT>> %TEMP%.\T.BAT call %TEMP%.\T.BAT VAR echo ; |CHOICE /c;%VAR%; call %0 GoTo: parse;> %TEMP%.\T.BAT for %%? in (call del) do %%? %TEMP%.\T.BAT :: Set OUTPUT file below (you might use %2) echo %VAR%> OUTPUT.EXT set VAR= goto eof :parse for %%? in (1 2 3) do SHIFT set VAR=%5%6/%3%4/%1%2%7%8 for %%? in (1 2 3) do SHIFT set VAR=%VAR%:%6%7:%8%9 :eof ===== BATCH SCRIPT END ===== Watch out for line wrapping! Read commented lines. Just for making things clear: if the INPUT file contains: 0123456789ABC The OUTPUT file will contain: 56/34/1278:9A:BC -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br