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Variable from multiple lines of text
Name: obrian93 Date: August 24, 2009 at 12:27:35 Pacific OS: XPSP2 Subcategory: Batch
Comment:
Posted a much more vague version of this over in xp general, but I think I better know what I want:
I have two text files, text1 and text2, each file contains multiple short lines of text, like this: P4534523 P0045823 P8830979
I would like to read the first line of text1 and use that text to search for the same string in text2. If the string is NOT found, I would like to stop and call an external batch file. If the string IS found, drop to the second line of text1 and repeat the search, repeating the process until another unique string is found or eof is reached.
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