Hello, I'm trying to do the following: for /F "tokens=1-2 delims=;" %%a in ('findstr /i "<Caption" "temp"') do ( set /a counter+=1 set /a N+=1 for /F "tokens=1-2 delims=;" %%e in ('findstr /i "text;" "temp"') do ( set /a counter2+=1 if "!counter2!"=="!counter!" ( echo %%b %%e %%f goto :eoloop ) ) :eoloop ) >>"temp2" The problem is that when the program leaves the second "for loop" it was supposed to continue on the first "for loop". But is leaves it too. I think it's because of the goto command. But since I don't know too much about batch I need help on this. Thanks

Yes, you can't code a goto that jumps to a location inside a For loop. Replace for /F "tokens=1-2 delims=;" %%a in ('findstr /i "<Caption" "temp"') do ( set /a counter+=1 set /a N+=1 for /F "tokens=1-2 delims=;" %%e in ('findstr /i "text;" "temp"') do ( set /a counter2+=1 if "!counter2!"=="!counter!" ( echo %%b %%e %%f goto :eoloop ) ) :eoloop ) >>"temp2" with for /F "tokens=1-2 delims=;" %%a in ('findstr /i "<Caption" "temp"') do ( set /a counter+=1 set /a N+=1 call :SUB %%b ) ....... goto :EOF :SUB for /F "tokens=1-2 delims=;" %%e in ('findstr /i "text;" "temp"') do ( set /a counter2+=1 if "!counter2!"=="!counter!" ( echo %* %%e %%f >>"temp2" goto :EOF ) ) goto :EOF

Worked perfectly, THANKS! But since temp file fas 2000 lines,I think this indead with loop inside another is taking to much to process. 2000 * 2000. This is what I'm trying to do: temp file format: time 00:00:00:00 text;blablabla time 00:00:03:29 text;blablablablblablbalblalba time 00:00:5:11 ... I want to convert to this format: 00:00:00:00 --> 00:00:03:28 blablabla 00:00:03:29 --> 00:00:5:10 blablablablblablbalblalba 00:00:5:11 .......... Basically if I could put time1 (time2 - 1ms) and text on the same line, I could do the rest. Thanks

The logic of your process is not clear to me, anyway to accomplish the transform you need is possible, but... - the last number means 1/100 secs not msecs; - how to handle 00:00:00:00? I suppose e.g. 00:00:02:00 -> 00:00:01:99 interpreting the time (elapsed) as hh:mm:ss:ss/100. More the lines' sequence must strictly follow time/text/time/text... and so on.