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Name: genet
Date: February 16, 2007 at 05:25:44 Pacific
Subject: read file line by line
OS: xp
CPU/Ram: intel 3.6 ghz

Comment:

hey again!
thx for the help at my last post!
want to ask if there is some way i can read a .txt file line by line ignoring lines beginning with "::" then writing the lines back into a file but without the lines with 2 colons at the beginning. i saw something like this i think using for /f tokens.. thx!

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Response Number 1

Name: Fist (by fmwap)
Date: February 16, 2007 at 05:43:08 Pacific

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I dunno about using "for" to do this, but in *nix it's a simple grep command:
grep -Ev "^::" bah
I would recommend getting GNU grep for win32. It's over here:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

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Name: genet
Date: February 16, 2007 at 05:44:28 Pacific

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o sorry i forgot to say i need this in dos batch..
thx

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Response Number 3

Name: IVO
Date: February 16, 2007 at 06:08:13 Pacific

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FindStr /B /V "::" FileName > FileOut

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Response Number 4

Name: genet
Date: February 16, 2007 at 11:06:54 Pacific

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thx! works fine.. sorry for the late reply

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Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: February 17, 2007 at 00:18:27 Pacific

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Works in NT. For DOS you'll need a 16 bit regex, like grep.

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Response Number 6

Name: genet
Date: February 17, 2007 at 01:05:51 Pacific

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hey again thx!
I am still trying to read a file line by line so i can for axemble read the first line echo it, then the second line ect ect ect until EOF: While doing this i want it to exclude lines that begin with ::
sry i ask so much from you all.. but i really do try my best befor asking.
thx again.

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Response Number 7

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: February 17, 2007 at 01:12:54 Pacific

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FindStr /B /V "::" < FileName

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Creating simple makefile ...

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