Hello All.

I have a test file with a lot of lines of text located in: C:\Test\go.txt

What I want to be able to do is edit a line of text in the file that reads:

C:\Temp\

to

Y:\Temp\ (or another path)

Could anyone please help??

Cheers

Ian.

@Echo Off > C:\Test\go.out
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion

For /f "tokens=* delims=" %%i in (C:\Test\go.txt) Do (
Set Row=%%i
Set Row=!Row:C:\Temp\=Y:\Temp\!
Echo !Row!>> C:\Test\go.out)

Echo Del C:\Test\go.txt
Echo Ren C:\Test\go.out go.txt

The script above replaces *each* occurence of C:\Temp\ with Y:\Temp\ and stores the result into the go.out file.

When you are sure all goes fine, remove the Echo in front of Del and Ren commands to get the go.txt edited. Replace the Y:\Temp\ string with the wished path if necessary.

That doesnt seem to work?

I didn't test it; please report more info about the problems you got.

here's one in vbscript
[code]
Dim pattern,newPattern,objFSO,objFile
Const ForReading=1
pattern="c:\temp"
newPattern="y:\temp"
Set objFSO= CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\go.txt", 1)
Do Until objFile.AtEndOfLine
line=Replace(objFile.ReadLine,pattern,newPattern)
WScript.Echo line
Loop
[/code]
save as myscript.vbs and run from command line: cscript myscript.vbs > outputfile