Hi, Can someone help. I need a way to search through many text files to find an "Ã" and replace it with a "~". Or at least search through many text files and alert me if an à exists. Thanks in advance. Mike

@echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion del *.new for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b *.txt') do ( set name=%%~Na for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%t in (%%a) do ( set str=%%t set str=!str:A=~! echo !str!>> !name!.new ) ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

OOPS not so fast That replaces 'a' as well as 'A'. Probably not what you want. Needs more work. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Here's a VBScript that'll do it: Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set oRegEx = New RegExp oRegEx.Global = True oRegEx.Pattern = InputBox("Replace what?", "Replace Text", "Ã") sRep = InputBox("With what?", "Substitute Text", "~") If Len(oRegEx.Pattern) = 0 Or Len(sRep) = 0 Then _ WScript.Quit For Each oFile In oFSO.GetFolder(".").Files If LCase(oFSO.GetExtensionName(oFile.Name)) = "txt" Then sFile = oFile.OpenAsTextStream().ReadAll oFile.OpenAsTextStream(2).Write oRegEx.Replace(sFile, sRep) End If Next WScript.Echo "Done"