delete specific words in htm

Matt123 January 6, 2011 at 20:12:18

< and > are redirection characters, you need to escape them with a caret (^< s ^>). Can I put a question here?

klint January 7, 2011 at 00:35:37

@Matt123, that's not what the problem is, the < and > are ok because they are enclosed in quotes and so they don't get treated as redirection characters. The problem is you are trying to delete a substring from within a line. Batch is not very good at doing that. You may find it easier to write it in VBScript, or use a helper utility such as sed (available from GnuWin32). Also, you are assuming all your text within the < s > and < /s > is on the same line. Is that a valid assumption? In html, it is allowed to span any number of lines.

Mechanix2Go January 7, 2011 at 01:16:18

FIND did what you told it to. It is a line based util. So is FINDSTR. Batch is not well suited to rpocessing html. Even on it's best behavior it will probably mangle the indenting. ===================================== Life is too important to be taken seriously. M2

Matt123 January 7, 2011 at 14:18:16

Thanks for the tip klint. Can I put a question here?

Thanks for your responses. Klint, I'll try VBScript. It's a good suggestion. And yes, my text in < s > and < /s > spans several line. I'll try VBScrips on Monday and will let you guys know.