An update. I tried a batch file with just @echo off in it and nothing else and ran it, I get the same error. So I know now its now your script. But now I don't know what my problem is.. I have piped the set command to a text file and pasted it below incase it might help someone help me... It doesn't look like anythin' has changed to me.. ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData APPDATA=C:\Users\Methical\AppData\Roaming CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\ext\QTJava.zip CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files COMPUTERNAME=NEMESIS ComSpec=C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe DFSTRACINGON=FALSE FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Users\Methical LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\Methical\AppData\Local LOGONSERVER=\\NEMESIS NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1 OS=Windows_NT Path=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\ PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86 PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13, GenuineIntel PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6 PROCESSOR_REVISION=0f0d ProgramData=C:\ProgramData ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files PROMPT=$P$G PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public QTJAVA=C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\ext\QTJava.zip SystemDrive=C: SystemRoot=C:\Windows TEMP=C:\Users\Methical\AppData\Local\Temp TMP=C:\Users\Methical\AppData\Local\Temp TRACE_FORMAT_SEARCH_PATH=\\NTREL202.ntdev.corp.microsoft.com\4F18C3A5-CA09-4DBD-B6FC-219FDD4C6BE0\TraceFormat USERDOMAIN=Nemesis USERNAME=Methical USERPROFILE=C:\Users\Methical windir=C:\Windows

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Ok well I realised that i had been editing the same batch file over and over again. So I deleted that one and started a new one, and it worked. So I dont know what was wrong with the other one, starting to think it was somethin' to do with the encoding when i saved the notepad file to .bat But anyway, ran your script with no errors from a command prompt. Awesome! When I try to do a echo %Number% or echo %Size% I get the return value %Number% or %Size% Not the numerical values that are in those lines. Would it help if i gave u the whole text file?

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here's a vbscript Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") strFile = "c:\test\file.txt" Set objFile = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFile) Dim arr() j=0 Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream strLine = objFile.ReadLine If InStr(strLine,"Number of files to delete") > 0 Or _ InStr(strLine,"Total size of files to delete") > 0 Then splitted = Split(strLine," ") ReDim Preserve arr(j) arr(j) = splitted(UBound(splitted)-1) j=j+1 End If ' WScript.Echo strLine Loop For i=0 To UBound(arr) WScript.Echo arr(i) Next save as myscript.vbs and on command prompt c:\test> cscript /nologo myscript.vbs Unix Win32 tools | Gawk for Windows

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Cheers for your efforts there ghostdog. I would prefer it in batch though =) I am running Windows Vista Home Basic SP1 Would like the code compatible with XP to, and maybe Win 7.

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i doubt you don't have cscript/wscript engines in your system. Unix Win32 tools | Gawk for Windows

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To ghostdog, for your info the guy sent me the log file to parse and I realized his true problem: the text file is encoded in a Unicode-like format, but missing the 0xFF-0xFE first two bytes marker. So the commands refuse to correctly interpret its content. It seems he saves using this mysterious format according to the error faced while running my batch script. As you know, Windows can usually process Unicode text files assumed they are correctly encoded. I'll send him the modified version of my script avoiding the use of delayed expansion and warn him about the format of his text files.

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