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Re: Append %string%

ten.nig...@virgin.net — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 11:02:36 UT

Or similarly:
@ECHO OFF & SETLOCAL
FOR /F "TOKENS=1*" %%# IN ("%*") DO SET "TAG=%%$"
ECHO/[%TAG%]
PAUSE

Re: Append %string%

ten.nig...@virgin.net — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 08:21:47 UT

@ECHO OFF & SETLOCAL
SET "#=0"
FOR %%# IN (%*) DO SET/A "#+=1"
ECHO/[%#%]
PAUSE

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t...@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 04:59:00 UT

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Re: Append %string%

tda...@mst.edu (Ted Davis) — Sun, 12 Dec 2009 16:26:46 UT

Yeah, something went wrong with the copy/paste - that sometimes happens
when Pan is open. The second one should be
for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ('echo %* ^| awk "{$1=\"\";print $0}"' do set
s=%%A
I had to retype that - copy/paste isn't working at all today - I'll have
to reboot.

Re: Append %string%

tda...@mst.edu (Ted Davis) — Sun, 12 Dec 2009 16:21:52 UT

You got that right!
I have a *huge* gawk program consisting of an HTML file to process that
has embeded information that is partially extracted by the main script and
the entire line passed to the secondary script named in that data. The
result is a new HTML file consisting of a list of web comics and

Re: Append %string%

m...@dev.null (mss) — Sun, 12 Dec 2009 14:08:10 UT

Good examples there Ted, appreciate your input.
As you can see below, the %TAG% variable was
what I needed to pass to (g)awk. And once inside
the awk program file, things (for me at least)
get so much easier...
Now that I have the awk program ported to Windows,
I can parse my data (snippets, phone numbers, etc...)

Re: Append %string%

billious_1...@hotmail.com (billious) — Sun, 12 Dec 2009 05:28:11 UT

Seems like one awk one-liner deleted to me....

Re: Append %string%

tda...@mst.edu (Ted Davis) — Sun, 12 Dec 2009 02:16:37 UT

As one of the few people actually mixing batch files and awk, I can offer
some advice.
Do all the text processing that you can in awk.
Use gawk as your awk interpreter.
Try to arrange the logic so that one or more awk scripts create the batch
file, rather than the batch file creating the awk script.

Re: Unicode: Using With Commands in Scripts

001.dmi...@gmail.com (01MDM) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:47:39 UT

Yes. But not in whole. I just think that such example is "matrioshka".
What is profit of creation of one script from another to execute it? I
was reading this news group two years. And what i am looking for? A
lot of examples refer to vbs =(
Lets echoing C# code to a file, csc.exe_ing it and run it. That is

Re: Append %string%

m...@dev.null (mss) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:30:11 UT

Howdy Frank. Good idea. The script in question
is a unique beast... a cmd script that creates
an awk program file, sorta tough to describe...
Correct. Is there an easy to determine the number
of elements in ARGV? (err... not sure what the
proper nomenclature is with respect to cmd scripting).
Saw some nice solutions in Prof. Timo Salmi's FAQs, but

Re: Append %string%

m...@dev.null (mss) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:19:50 UT

Thanks Tom (and Ted too!) works as needed. Both of these
posts have taught me some new things.
Coming from a more unix-centric environment, main issue here
that seems to be holding me down is %%quoting%% vs. %quoting
vs. %quoting%...

Re: Append %string%

frank.westl...@yahoo.com (Frank P. Westlake) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:44:54 UT

"mss" news:hfe13a$5e1$1@news.albasani.net...
Might it be sufficient to take the entire commandline (%*) and take off
the first portion?
Set "TAG=%*"
If "%~1"=="-z" (
Set "TAG=%TAG:~3%"
) Else ...
I'm assuming that your limit is %9 because you just don't expect there
to be more. The above will go beyond %9.

Re: Unicode: Using With Commands in Scripts

frank.westl...@yahoo.com (Frank P. Westlake) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:30:39 UT

"01MDM"
I'm not sure what you mean but I think you are just showing an example
of what you think is bad programming practice.
I agree that if a carpenter repairs a broken chair leg with tape it is
bad practice; the carpenter should replace the leg or repair it with
glue. But I am not a carpenter and I cannot afford glue, so if my chair

Re: Unicode: Using With Commands in Scripts

frank.westl...@yahoo.com (Frank P. Westlake) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:59:48 UT

"01MDM"
FPW >> Type utf-8.txt
Unicode output:
CHCP 65001 & CMD/C"Type utf-8.txt" & CHCP 437
ASCII output:
CHCP 65001 & (For /F "delims=" %%a in (
'Type utf-8.txt'
) Do Echo.%%a) & CHCP 437
ASCII output:
(For /F "delims=" %%a in (
'CHCP 65001 ^& Type utf-8.txt'
) Do Echo.%%a) & CHCP 437

Re: Append %string%

tlave...@gmail.com (Tom Lavedas) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:19:37 UT

The 'easiest' way is probably ...
for %%x in (%2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9) do (
if not [%%x]==[] CALL set TAG=%%TAG%% %%x
)
The documented way (see SET /? and SETLOCAL /? for more info) is ...
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for %%x in (%2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9) do (
if not [%%x]==[] set TAG=!TAG! %%x