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I tried responding to this PM however Emilware's mailbox is full. <sigh>

hey Sidewinder
i'm tring to create a batch file that searches and replaces text in files .src and .dat.
this is the code i'm using
@echo on
echo in progress
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f %%x in ('dir /a:-d /s /b C:\transfer\*.txt') do (
   for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%i in (%%x) do (
      set input=%%i
      set input=!input:bob=emil!
      set input=!input:smith=mark!
      set input=!input:peter=kevin!
      echo !input! >> %%x.chg
               
               
           
               
   )

set oldname=%%x
set newname=%%x.chg
ren !newname! !oldname!

)

endlocal   

i'm having a problem changing the name of the file that gets created back to original name .
the file that gets created has a extension .chg and i need to loose that extention.
can you help
Please i spent 3 day on this i get nowhere.

Emil,

I prefer not to answer PM, but rather try and help out on the public boards. This gives even the casual user a chance to learn from the posting.

Please i spent 3 day on this i get nowhere

It got you here and we're somewhere. Nowhere is to the left!

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@echo on
echo in progress
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%x in ('dir /a:-d /s /b C:\temp\*.txt') do (
   for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%i in (%%x) do (
      set input=%%i
      set input=!input:bob=emil!
      set input=!input:smith=mark!
      set input=!input:peter=kevin!
      echo !input! >> "%%x.chg"
   )
   ren "%%x" "%%~nxx.old"
   ren "%%x.chg" "%%~nxx"
)

The snippet labels the original file with an old extension and labels the new file with the original name.

Good luck.

thank you for your help. this works great and sorry about sending u PM. i'm new to this.
like i said this works but i have an other problem. when new file gets created and the lines are being copied for some reason it skips lines starting with   ;FOLD and  ;ENDFOLD  .Is there a way to fix that?
this is example of the file that i'm tring to change.

;FOLD ; *** Timer Start SW ***;%{PE}%R 4.1.16,%MKUKATPBASIS,%CCOMMENT,%VNORMAL,%P 2:*** Timer Start SW ***
;ENDFOLD
$TIMER[3]=0
$TIMER_STOP[3]=FALSE
;FOLD ; **********************;%{PE}%R 4.1.16,%MKUKATPBASIS,%CCOMMENT,%VNORMAL,%P 2:**********************
;ENDFOLD

;FOLD PTP lap110 CONT Vel= 100 % PDAT11 Tool[15]:Car-Zero Base[6]:car-0 extTCP;%{PE}%R 4.1.15,%MKUKATPBASIS,%CMOVE,%VPTP,%P 1:PTP, 2:lap110, 3:C_PTP, 5:100, 7:PDAT11
$BWDSTART = FALSE
PDAT_ACT=PPDAT11
BAS(#PTP_DAT)
FDAT_ACT=Flap110
BAS(#FRAMES)
BAS(#VEL_PTP,100)
PTP Xlap110 C_PTP
;ENDFOLD

;FOLD PTP sw164w11625013 PDAT26 SPOT Gun= 2 RETR CLS ACTIVE= 1 Tool[15]:Car-Zero Base[6]:car-0 extTCP;%{PE}%R 4.1.11,%MKUKATPSPOT,%CSPOT,%VPTP,%P 1:PTP, 2:sw164w11625013, 3:, 5:100, 7:PDAT26, 10:2, 12:#FIRST, 14:#CLO, 16:0, 18:1, 20:0, 22:0, 24:1, 25:NORMAL
$BWDSTART = TRUE
PDAT_ACT=PPDAT26
BAS(#PTP_DAT)
FDAT_ACT=Fsw164w11625013
BAS(#FRAMES)
BAS(#VEL_PTP,PPDAT26.VEL)
S_ACT.GUN=2
S_ACT.PAIR=SDEFAULT.PAIR
S_ACT.RETR=#CLO
S_ACT.CLO_TM=1
S_ACT.PGNO1=11625013
S_ACT.PGNO2=SDEFAULT.PGNO2
S_ACT.PRESS1=SDEFAULT.PRESS1
S_ACT.PRESS2=SDEFAULT.PRESS2
S_READY=FALSE
PTP Xsw164w11625013
USERSPOT(#SPOT, S_ACT)
WAIT FOR S_READY
;ENDFOLD

The sw164w11625013 must be change to sw164w1100625013. I must insert 00 after 11.
If there is a way just to modify original file by inserting 00 after sw164w11 insted of creating a new file, then that would work too.
I tried writing VBS but with out wildcard i cant get it to open and change all files with extension .SRC and .DAT in the folder.

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Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
Const FileIn = "C:\transfer\test.txt"
Const FileOut = "C:\transfer\test.txt"  '<== Change to prevent overwrite of original file

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(FileIn, ForReading)

strText = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close
strNewText = Replace(strText, "bob", "emil")

Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(FileOut, ForWriting)
objFile.WriteLine strNewText
objFile.Close

PLease help me if u can.
thanks

By default FOR /f skips lines with a semicolon at the start.  For them to be read, a different end of line (eol) character must be assigned in the delims block. Choose a suitable character that does not appear in the lines you wish to process. In this example I have used the @ character

for /f "eol=@ tokens=* delims=" %%i in (%%x) do (

I tried writing VBS but with out wildcard i cant get it to open and change all files with extension .SRC and .DAT in the folder.

This should eliminate your need for a wildcard:

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Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = objFSO.GetFolder("c:\transfer")
Set fc = f.Files

For Each fs In fc
If objFSO.GetExtensionName(fs) = "SRC" Or objFSO.GetExtensionName(fs) = "DAT" Then
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(fs.Path, ForReading)
strOldText = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close

strNewText = Replace(strOldText, "bob", "emil", 1, -1 ,1)    'First replace use strOldtext
strNewText = Replace(strNewText, "smith", "mark", 1, -1, 1)  'Subsequent replace use strNewText
strNewText = Replace(strNewText, "peter", "kevin", 1, -1, 1)

Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(fs.Path, ForWriting)
objFile.WriteLine strNewText
objFile.Close

Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(fs.Path & ".old")
objFile.WriteLine strOldText
objFile.Close
End If
Next

The replace function is case insensitive. Same situation applies as with the batch code: original file gets labeled with an old extension; Changed file has same label as original file.

Good luck.

Thanks SIDEWINDER

YOU REALY KNOW YOUR STUFF
This works great 
Its lot faster than batch.
This is the best search and replace.
Thanks