[tumby1974]

Hi all,

I have a text file that has one line:

<td>50001~BUILD~09~TEST ONLY~Precision Dr, 3445 </td>

I'm looking to create a batch file to remove the <td> at the front of the line, and also remove  </td> at the end.

I've only been able to find stuff about search and replace, and I'm having a hard time understanding the code in these bigger batch files.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


Ok, I think I got it. I used a bat file I found on a different forum that dealt with character deletion.

Then on another site I found out about left, right, mid and how to manipulate characters

so:

@echo off > newfile & setLocal enableDELAYedexpansion

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (boolah.dat) do (
set str=%%a
set str=!str:~4,-12!
>> newfile echo !str!
)

This removes the first 4 characters ( <td> )
It also removes the last 12 characters (  </td> )

 

[Squashman]

if the file was just one line you could have done this.

set /a str=<boolah.dat