Hi, I need a batch file to edit a text file. This file contains test results from a program. The data is separated by spaces and "00000" (space and numbers as delimiter?). I need to have each of them moved to different lines. I also need to have characters "00" inserted at the beginning of each line. Input (what I have): 123 alpha test 1 00000 223.3 Output (what I need): 123 alpha 00 test 1 223.3 Can anyone help me, please? Thanks in advance.

@echo off > newfile setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%N in (myfile) do ( call :sub1 %%N ) goto :eof :sub1 >> newfile echo %1 %2 >> newfile echo 00 %3 %4 %6 goto :eof ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Mechanix2Go, thanks for the quick reply. I will try it now.

Apparently I didn't type the sample correctly for the message format. Some of the empty spaces were missing. Here's the input file (4 lines; 0C - 5, 0RED - 00000, 0YELL - 00000, 0BLUE - 00000): 0C Service [6 spaces] 21 [23 spaces] 0 [9 spaces] 3 [33 spaces] 5 [9 spaces] 5 0RED ACE [16 spaces] 0.5669 [4 spaces] 00000 0YELL ACE [15 spaces] 0.7727 [4 spaces] 00000 0BLUE ACE [15 spaces] 0.1969 [4 spaces] 00000 And this is the output file I need (4 lines; 021 - 5, 0T - 00000, 0T - 00000, 0T - 00000): 021 [13 spaces] C SERVICE [16 spaces] 0 [9 spaces] 3 [33 spaces] 4 [9 spaces] 5 0T [2 spaces] RED ACE [3 spaces] 0.0000 [4 spaces] 0.5669 [4 spaces] 00000 0T [2 spaces] YELL ACE [2 spaces] 0.0000 [4 spaces] 0.7727 [4 spaces] 00000 0T [2 spaces] BLUE ACE [2 spaces] 0.0000 [4 spaces] 0.1969 [4 spaces] 00000 Mechanix2Go, I really appreciate your help. I tried to modify the batch file you gave, but it just wouldn't let me use all those variables. I found out that the maximum number of variables is 10 (%0 - %9), while I have 19 variables. Also, I couldn't separate the 0s from the C, RED, YELL, BLUE. Could anyone help me? Sorry about the [spaces], but I need the empty spaces between the variables -- basically I need all the numbers in columns. Thank you.

You got me mystified. Maybe you can send me two files, the orig and the needed. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Mechanix2Go, Thank you your prompt response. I will be sending you the two files (input and output). I really appreciate your help!

Got 'em. Where does the 0.0000 in the 4th column of lines 2~4 come from? ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2