Summary: Hi, I'm getting confused on trying to use numeric variables in BAT files. I've seen these names: variable _variable %variable %variable% Specifically...
Summary: Hi lee123abc, I got your message and here I am. A post is not well suited to host a lesson on scripting style that probably looks cumbersome to you du...
Summary: I agree with ghostdog's advice as I feel you are going on a rough lane that leads to nowhere. Batch scripts are not suited to replace facilities bett...
Summary: if %cmsserviced%a==4 goto stop should be if %%a==4 goto stop Next, think about what happens when %%a is not ==4. It will go to the next statement... w...
Summary: Tomarak, You don't have any FOR loop variables in your script, so the %% doesn't apply. Just for information, the advice that you quote is only applic...
Summary: Basically I want to do something like the following. set counter = 0 :copyFile counter /a += 1 copy files.... if (print screen) = "The system cannot ...
Summary: So here is what I'm thinking, first would you be opposed to using VBScript? (If you can run a batch, you can run a VBSCript) Then I'm wondering if yo...
Summary: Hi there! I would like to post a question here about batch file and "if else if" support. I have googled and found people suggest using "nested if" ...
Summary: plz i need to manage my web server traffic by analysing data of log file & i'"ve to write a database script to read the web server log file ? ...
Summary: Creating an Encoder cause I'm bored. I have a problem. I ask for the users input to a variable called %Sentence% But what I'm struggling to do is to c...
Summary: Hi I have designed an application which creates an event log of the system. I want the application to startup every time the OS boots up. I need some...
Summary: i've worked some with vfp, and based on my experience, i would guess that vfp cannot open and extract PDF files text. If however you have access to vi...
Summary: The reason you get the error is that you are not using a caret (^) but some other obscure character instead (ˆ) - whatever that character is, it's no...
Summary: this just goes through the tree, like "dir /s" and lists all files. maybe you can adapt/use it, i'm not sure. i haven't tried it over network drives y...
Summary: ahh crap the program stopped working and i forgot what i did right... ok nbrane I added to code you indicated into the vba code within excel. it indic...
Summary: routine does timer (example 5 seconds): replace var. names as suitable for minutes not seconds, replace: ,8! with ,5! in code. (hh:mm:ss min...
Summary: I would like to make a batch file that kind find the largest file in a directory and launch it. I have basic batch creation knowledge and I can find t...
Summary: Hi- I'm a programming newbie and could use a hint on how to get started with reformatting this file. I use AWK a lot and have done a bit of simple P...
Summary: I am making a program at the moment and the last thing to do is make a coutdown time from 2 hours example 2:00:00 1:59:59 ect and stop when it gets to...
Summary: No apology needed, you were clear it was untested. I'm a mainframe programmer by trade and have done PC programming since BASIC on the Apple II, I jus...
Summary: prob'ly need to do setlocal and go ahead and do the enable while you're at it: setlocal enabledelayedexpansion as first line of code. Otherwise, varia...
Summary: Hey. I need some help with C or C++. I have to import a file.txt with real E notated (like 2.3E-12) numbers in 2 columns in it (coordinates basicly -...