I'm trying to create a batch file to find and extract text to a new file. The string is "<.b>Album:*<.br>" (where * can be any number of any characters) The objective is to input an RSS feed containing recent album release dates, and extract the albums to a new text file. From there, I want to compare the albums using an SQL query in greasemonkey to what albums the user has, and find only the albums the user doesn't have. However, I'm having real issues with findstr... Any help would be much appreciated. EX: From: [CDATA[<.b>Artist:<./b> Artist Name<.br><.b>Album:<./b> Album Name<.br><.b>Release Date:<./b> Date<.br>[CDATA[<.b>Artist:<./b> Artist Name<.br><.b>Album:<./b> Album Name<.br><.b>Release Date:<./b> Date<.br> to: <.b>Album:<./b> Album Name<.br><.b>Album:<./b> Album Name<.br> (There are no periods in the html tags, I just used them to stop the forums from recognizing them as such :D)

Ok I've given it a go and this is what I came up with..... @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION FOR /F "DELIMS=" %%G IN ('FINDSTR /I /R "<B.>ALBUM:.*</.B>.*<.BR>" YOURRSS.HTML') DO ( SET TEMP="%%G" SET TEMP=!TEMP:^>=}! SET TEMP=!TEMP:^<={! SET TEMP=!TEMP:{B}ALBUM:=##! SET TEMP=!TEMP:~1,-1! CALL :STRIP1 ) GOTO OTHERSTUFF :STRIP1 IF NOT DEFINED TEMP GOTO :EOF IF NOT "!TEMP:~0,2!"=="##" SET TEMP=!TEMP:~1!&&GOTO STRIP1 SET SVR=!TEMP! SET CNT=0 :STRIP2 IF NOT DEFINED SVR GOTO :EOF SET /A CNT+=1 IF /I NOT "!SVR:~0,3!"=="{BR" SET SVR=!SVR:~1!&GOTO STRIP2 SET SVR=!TEMP:~0,%CNT%! SET SVR="!SVR:##=<.B>Album:!" SET SVR=!SVR:{/B}=^</B^>! SET SVR=!SVR:{=^<BR^>! ECHO !SVR:~1,-1!>>NEWTEXTFILE.TXT SET TEMP=!TEMP:~%CNT%! GOTO STRIP1 :OTHERSTUFF There is one thing to watch out for with the script above, it won't tolerate any changes(except for case) to "<.b>Album:"(it will still work with stuff after the colon). I used dots like you like you did above, there are four of them in the script and five in the whole post.

You can not properly parse HTML or XML (RSS is an XML application) with a batch script. You need to use a language that has parsing libraries that understand html and xml. You need to use a language like Perl, or Python, or VB.