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Old 06-21-2014
Findstring in a loop ?
Well, I have a txt that looks like this:
Code:
Image: 0001.gif
comment: Lavc54.63.100
    date:create: 2014-06-21T19:22:02+02:00
    date:modify: 2013-03-07T22:24:23+01:00
    signature: 32feab76ef7f9b15baef90406c4021c0927862ffacd5ea82ba9337e9a01e80ed
Image: 0002.gif
comment: Lavc54.63.100
    date:create: 2014-06-21T19:22:02+02:00
    date:modify: 2013-03-07T22:24:23+01:00
    signature: 32feab76ef7f9b15baef90406c4021c0927862ffacd5ea82ba9337e9a01e80ed
Image: 0003.gif
comment: Lavc54.63.100
    date:create: 2014-06-21T19:22:02+02:00
    date:modify: 2013-03-07T22:24:23+01:00
    signature: 32feab76ef7f9b15baef90406c4021c0927862ffacd5ea82ba9337e9a01e80ed


I know how to use findstr.

In this case I would do this
Code:
findstr "Image: " out.txt >> res.txt
findstr signature out.txt >> res.txt

in order to extract the lines Image: and signature.

The problem here is... with this approach it will look like this:

Code:
Image: 0001.gif
Image: 0002.gif
Image: 0003.gif
signature: 32feab76ef7f9b15baef90406c4021c0927862ffacd5ea82ba9337e9a01e80ed
signature: 32feab76ef7f9b15baef90406c4021c0927862ffacd5ea82ba9337e9a01e80ed
signature: 32feab76ef7f9b15baef90406c4021c0927862ffacd5ea82ba9337e9a01e80ed


I'd however want it to look like this

Code:
Image: 0001.gif
signature: 32feab76ef7f9b15baef90406c4021c0927862ffacd5ea82ba9337e9a01e80ed
Image: 0002.gif
signature: 32feab76ef7f9b15baef90406c4021c0927862ffacd5ea82ba9337e9a01e80ed
Image: 0003.gif
signature: 32feab76ef7f9b15baef90406c4021c0927862ffacd5ea82ba9337e9a01e80ed

Is it possible to utilize findstring and output those like this ?
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-21-2014 at 03:24 PM.. Reason: quote tags -> code tags
# 2  
Old 06-21-2014
Try
Code:
findstr "Image: signature:" out.txt >> res.txt

# 3  
Old 06-21-2014
Perfect ! Thanks.

BTW:
Let's assume that findstr would only accept "one" parameter:
How would you have solved the problem then ?
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