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Microsoft => Microsoft DOS => Topic started by: GeorgeF on April 25, 2019, 06:24:23 AM

Title: Remove characters from a text file
Post by: GeorgeF on April 25, 2019, 06:24:23 AM

Hi, been struggling to get this to work.

I have a txt file with 500 lines and growing, each line in the beginning has the text as the example below. I already have a batch file that joins 2 text files and one has K:\logs3\ and the other list just the files including folders.
ex. K:\logs3\test.txt

Its not a option to simple remove the folder as that would create more issues and more work. Therefore is the a way to remove these charaters form the line - K:\logs3\ ?

Thanks in Advance

Title: Re: Remove characters from a text file
Post by: GeorgeF on April 25, 2019, 08:33:19 AM

Manage to resolve my own problem but another issue has pop up concerning the same code.
The code below removes the first 11 characters from a line in a text file. my issue now is to delete letters or characters in the middle of a text line. Example - I have C:\folder\doc - would like to remove "folder\ only and leave c:\ + doc.

think the issue might be over here - set "line=!line:~0,11!"

Thanks in Advance



@echo off &setlocal
(for /f "delims=" %%a in (list.txt) do (
    set "line=%%a"
    setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
    set "line=!line:~0,11!"
    echo(!line!
    endlocal
))>list.txt.new