Hello guys, i want to do a batch file to split a text file into multiple txt files every time there is a given word inside the txt. for example: (content of text.txt) bla bla bla bla CAR No. 1 bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla CAR No. 2 bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla CAR No. 3 and i want to split it into 3 txt files, the first of them containing CAR No.1 and bla bla bla... the second containing CAR No.2 and bla bla and so on. thanks in advance.

@echo off & setLocal EnableDELAYedExpansion if exist file?.txt del file?.txt for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (text.txt) do ( set str=%%a echo !str! | find "CAR No" > nul if not errorlevel 1 ( set dest=!str! if defined dest set dest=!dest:~-1! ) if defined dest echo !str!>> file!dest!.txt ) ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

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It obviously wasn't urgent. ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

# Script SplitFile.txt var str file, str var str content ; cat $file > $content while ( { sen -c -r "^"+str+"&\n^" $content } > 0 ) do echo "\n\n\n\nNEXT SPLIT FOLLOWS.\n" stex -c -r "^"+str+"&\n^]" $content done echo "\n\n\n\nLAST SPLIT FOLLOWS.\n" echo $content Script is in biterscripting ( http://www.biterscripting.com ) . Save the script in file C:/Scripts/SplitFile.txt, call it using the command script "C:/Scripts/SplitFile.txt" file(C:/text.txt") str("CAR No.") Will show you splits of file C:/text.txt split at the string "Car No.". To create split files, just redirect the output of the stex command with > . Increment the file name after each split.