How to handle ampersands when finding/replacing text in batch file?
I have the following batch file to find and remove a string in a text file. The text files will be coming in the following format:
079754,Billing & Business Adv..,E:\MyDirectory\079754_35931_Billing & Business Adv...pdf,Combined PDF
I simply want to remove "E:\MyDirectory\" from the file and then move the file to a subdirectory. My batch file works as expected except for the case wher开发者_运维百科e there is an ampersand in the file (such as the one above)..
Instead of my result file containing:
079754,Billing & Business Adv..,Billing & Business Adv...pdf,Combined PDF
It instead contains,
079754,Billing
I am somewhat new to writing batch files and I know the ampersand affects the tokenizing in some way. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Batch File:
@echo off
cd C:\Temp\broker
for %%f in (*.dat) do (
if exist newfile.txt del newfile.txt
FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%a in (%%f) do @call :Change "%%a"
del %%f
rename newfile.txt %%f
move %%f "import\%%f"
)
exit /b
pause
:Change
set Text=%~1
set Text=%Text:E:\MyDirectory\=%
FOR /F "tokens=3 delims=," %%d in ("%Text%") do @set File=%%d
(echo %Text%)>> newfile.txt
move "%File%" "import\%File%"
exit /b
You should enquote commands like set
, to escape the &
and other special characters.
And use the delayed expansion, as with delayed expansion the special characters are ignored.
And percent expansion is evaluated before a block is executed, so your for-loop can't work as expected.
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
...
:Change
set "Text=%~1"
set "Text=!Text:E:\MyDirectory\=!"
FOR /F "tokens=3 delims=," %%d in ("!Text!") do @set File=%%d
(echo !Text!)>> newfile.txt
move "!File!" "import\!File!"
exit /b
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