I was wondering if anyone had created an insert script that could do the following:

1) Open a file
2) Find a particular line of text in a file.
3) insert either before or after a line (or more than one line from another file).
4) save the file and exit

Any help would be appreciated. Up until now I have been able to work around this problem, but I think it is going to be a big requirement very soon.

Thanks, Ken
Hi Ken,

I was looking for an answer to this very same question myself. I was able to find a solution to my problem by editting the append function. Specifically, I needed to insert (or append) a string to the beginning of each line in a .csv file to create a NEW field. Here is what I have:

::append str file line -- appends a string to a SPECIFIC line in a text file
:: -- str [in] - string to be appended
:: -- file [in] - file name to append the string to
:: -- line [in] - line number to append the string to, first line is 1, omit for last line
::$source http://www.dostips.com
rem SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
rem SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SETLOCAL
set ap=%~1
set f=%~2
set c=%~3
if not defined c (
set c=0
for /f %%a in ('find /v /c ""^<"%f%"') do set c=%%a
)
(for /f "tokens=1,* delims=:" %%a in ('findstr /n /v "$$"^<"%f%"') do (
if not "%%a"=="%c%" (echo.%ap%%%b >> "file2.csv") ELSE (echo.%%b >> "file3.csv")
))>"%temp%.\t0815.txt"
EXIT /b %ERRORLEVEL%

I call this bat file with the following:
append.bat "14," file1.csv 0

Hope it helps.
Jacquieif you can afford to install GNU awk (or sed) , all that batch code can be simplified to :
Code: [Select]#insert before a line
awk '/<My Tag>/ { print "new text" } {print}' file
# insert after
awk '/<My Tag>/ { print $0; print "new text";NEXT } {print} ' file