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Win XP batch to read text file

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Name: klint
Date: October 30, 2007 at 04:44:14 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: Pentium
Product: IBM
Comment:

Hi, I've written a cmd.exe batch file to read text from a file, something like this:

for /f %%s in (file.txt) do call process "%s"

This works fine except that it skips blanks lines. Is there any way to prevent it skipping blank lines?

I know I can use other languages (Perl, Javascript, tcsh, PowerShell etc), but I want to use nothing other than cmd.exe (no external helper utilities either) as I'm doing it as a learning exercise.

Thanks
Klint




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Name: Ewen
Date: October 30, 2007 at 16:05:42 Pacific
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Try here: http://www.computing.net/programmin...

Once I thought I was wrong, now I'm not so sure!


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