Re: Validating Text Strings & Isolating files with odd characters

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:41:02 -0000, awnster wrote:

> Sorry for the confusions. Here are some clarifications to my previous 
> message:
> 
> 1) Check the text files if it contain the letter "A" qualifier (3rd 
> character from the left in the example) in the HDR record. example: 
> HDR*A*ADDRESS*APPLICATION123456789).
> 
> Q: R is the third character from the left, above. * is the fouth from 
> the left.
> A: The letter "A" qualifier is the 5th character from the left.
> 
> 2) Check for odd characters, for this example we can use the tilde 
> character "~".
> 
> Q: What do you mean by odd?  1,3,5,7,9?
> A: Odd character such as "ñ" and square shape characters (are
> these 
> control charaters?). I am using the "~" instead of the square 
> character since I cannot copy & paste the square character to the 
> message.   
>  
> 3) Move files that does not have the "A" qualifier or contain the 
> tilde character "~" to c:\error\errorlog.txt.
> 
> Q: Do these text files contain any characters that are not 
> alphanumeric?
> A: Yes, it can have *, #, -, &, $, etc. 

I used Sam's code - it's untested.

 <at> echo off
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir c:\stage\*.txt /b') do call :EVAL "%%a"
GOTO :EOF

:EVAL
findstr /r "^HDR\*A" "c:\stage\%~1" > nul
if %errorlevel%==0 GOTO :EOF
findstr "~" "c:\stage\%~1" > nul
if %errorlevel%==1 GOTO :EOF

move "c:\stage\%~1" c:\error
>>c:\error\errorlog.txt echo Moved file %1

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Regards,
Mic

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