Hello; Please excuse me for opening a new topic, but I have an urgent problem: I try to use a batch file (take it from this site also) to replace some PIPE "|" characters from a *.txt file with another character, let's say comma ","; but nothing happens; if the character is other then PIPE, then the batch is ok. The batch file has the following syntax: @echo off if "%1"=="GoTo" goto %2 %comspec% /v:on /c %0 GoTo start goto:eof :start type nul> %temp%.\$ for /F "tokens=*" %%S in (filename.ext) do ( set str=%%S echo !str:|=,!>> %temp%.\$ ) copy/y %temp%.\$ filename.ext > nul del %temp%.\$ Thanks.

That script is too much of a mess to try to fix; or even comment on, except to say that it's not DOS. To change | to , try this. =============================== @echo off > newfile & setLocal enableDELAYedexpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (myfile) do ( set str=%%a echo !str:^|=,! >> newfile ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

get sed from here. then on command line C:\test>more file.txt one|two |there |four 1|2|3|4|5|7|8 C:\test>sed "s/|/,/g" file.txt one,two ,there ,four 1,2,3,4,5,7,8

Thank you very much; It works! The output of your script is another file, so I've combine the two script above, and now I have the solution. PS. I don't know scripting, but why are you saying the first script is a mess? there is problem with creating a temp file and deleting it?

I'll mention just 2: !str! is meaningless without enableDELAYedexpansion. /y with COPY is superfluous, since the default is to overwrite. ================ OK, one more. What's the purpose of the dot in : %temp%.\$ ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2