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delete first three characters from each line

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I am trying to write a batch file that will delete the first three characters from every line of a text file with no success. I am a newbie to this, any help would be appreciated.

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: November 3, 2009 at 04:44:16 Pacific

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@echo off > newfile & setLocal enableDELAYedexpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (myfile) do ( set s=%%a set s=!s:~3! >> newfile echo.!s! ) ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

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Name: klint
Date: November 3, 2009 at 05:28:07 Pacific

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What do you want the program to do when it encounters a line with less than three characters?

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