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Scan textfile content for a key
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Name: dAn
Date: May 13, 2004 at 00:53:46 Pacific
Subject: Scan textfile content for a key
OS: DOS
CPU/Ram: PII-450, 64Mb
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Comment: I want to send a text-file to a barcode-printer. This will be done by entering: copy file.txt lpt1: This text-file contains a lot of lines, each representing an Articlenumber with it's data. By sending the file to the printer, all records will be printed.
So far no problem, but when a reprint of a specific article has to be made, I need to scan the textfile for a certain data string (the article number) and print that specific record. Can this be done in DOS? A small example of the text-file:
^XA^XFW2.ZPL^FN999^FDBR915345 ^XA^XFW2.ZPL^FN999^FDBR915353 ^XA^XFW2.ZPL^FN999^FDSB837044 ^XA^XFW2.ZPL^FN999^FDBR907262 BR915345 in the first record is the article number and therefore the key on what I'd like to select... Thanks in advance,
dAn.
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Name: IVO
Date: May 13, 2004 at 01:08:41 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Just use the following composite command Type File.txt | Find "BR915345" > LPT1 where Find is a filter command selecting the line holding the code you want to print. Obviously replace the string enclosed between quotes with the characters you need. I hope this helps.
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