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Batch File: Copy part of a text to a new file
Name: aknu Date: July 22, 2009 at 04:08:47 Pacific OS: Windows XP Subcategory: Batch
Comment:
Hi
I would like to make a batch file which can copy a certain paragraph within an existing textfile into a new file.
I know the starting phrase of the paragraph and I know the phrase immediately after the paragraph.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this?
Name: dtech10 Date: July 22, 2009 at 14:46:19 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Aknu
@echo off SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion type nul > NewFile.txt set StartText=Start Line of Paragraph set EndText=End Line which is not Included set Flag=0 for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in ('type XCopy.txt') do ( if /i "%StartText%" EQU "%%a" (set Flag=1) if /i "%EndText%" EQU "%%a" (set Flag=0) if !Flag! EQU 1 echo %%a >> NewFile.txt )
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Response Number 2
Name: ghostdog Date: July 22, 2009 at 17:22:30 Pacific
Name: aknu Date: July 23, 2009 at 05:18:28 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you very much for your replies.
dtech10: Your proposal turned out to solve my problem on the whole. However when using "for /f", blank lines are ignored which was a problem for me as I wanted to include the blank lines. I found a way to solve this in the following tip:
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