There is a program that runs on a remote PC which does some telnet work via a script, then sends the session log to a text file. Depending on the speed of the telnet session (it's using TST10.exe), the formatting is sometimes different (usually the slower connections). I'm hoping to create a batch file that can send several pings to the device being telnetted into, add the response times together, then give an average response time. The parsing part is done: @echo off set IP=127.0.0.1 ping %IP% -n 1 -w 3000>.\DetermineSpeed1.txt ping %IP% -n 1 -w 3000>.\DetermineSpeed2.txt ping %IP% -n 1 -w 3000>.\DetermineSpeed3.txt ping %IP% -n 1 -w 3000>.\DetermineSpeed4.txt for /f "tokens=3 delims==" %%a in ('type .\DetermineSpeed1.txt ^| find "time"') do set One=%%a for /f "tokens=3 delims==" %%a in ('type .\DetermineSpeed2.txt ^| find "time"') do set Two=%%a for /f "tokens=3 delims==" %%a in ('type .\DetermineSpeed3.txt ^| find "time"') do set Three=%%a for /f "tokens=3 delims==" %%a in ('type .\DetermineSpeed4.txt ^| find "time"') do set Four=%%a for /f "tokens=1 delims= " %%a in ('echo %One%') do set One=%%a for /f "tokens=1 delims= " %%a in ('echo %Two%') do set Two=%%a for /f "tokens=1 delims= " %%a in ('echo %Three%') do set Three=%%a for /f "tokens=1 delims= " %%a in ('echo %Four%') do set Four=%%a for /f "tokens=1 delims=m" %%a in ('echo %One%') do set One=%%a for /f "tokens=1 delims=m" %%a in ('echo %Two%') do set Two=%%a for /f "tokens=1 delims=m" %%a in ('echo %Three%') do set Three=%%a for /f "tokens=1 delims=m" %%a in ('echo %Four%') do set Four=%%a echo First ping response : %one% echo Second ping response: %two% echo Third ping response : %three% echo Fourth ping response: %four% del .\DetermineSpeed1.txt del .\DetermineSpeed2.txt del .\DetermineSpeed3.txt del .\DetermineSpeed4.txt pause goto:EOF Now I just need to find a way to do the math of adding them together and dividing by the number of pings to find the average. Any takers on this challenge? :)

Wow, I'm a complete knucklehead not to have figured this out. set /a sum=%one%+%two%+%three%+%four% echo. echo Sum: %sum% set /a average=%sum%/4 echo. echo Average: %average% echo. Wheee!

@echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=4 delims==" %%a in ('ping computing.net ^|find " Average"') do ( echo %%a ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Leave it to me to write a bazillion lines of code when less than five are needed. :) Thanks!!!!