Hey all,
I'm trying to do something very specific here... I have a file, it's anywhere from 1 to 15 lines, and each line only contains one word (a computer name). This "list" needs to be fed back into another text file, newlist.txt, in the format below:

word1, word2, word3, word4, etc...

So basically, I want to make it comma delimited. I've tried various THINGS with FOR and IF, but they're just not working; best I got was this:

word1
,
word2
,
word3
,
etc...

Any help WOULD be appreciated, but if it could be limited to dos COMMANDS, that would be preferable. I'm not sure I'll be in an ENVIRONMENT where VB scripts will work, but if that's my *only* way, so be it.

Thanks!You didn't MENTION an OS but this has been known to work on some of them:

Code: [Select]echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f %%v in (myFile.txt) do (
call set oneline=!oneline!,%%v
)
set oneline=!oneline:~1!
echo %oneline%

Be sure to change myFile.txt to something more usable.



this works on dos/xp
Code: [Select]@echo off
set text=
for /f %%a in (myFile.txt) do call :settext %%a
goto end
:settext
if "%text%"=="" (
set text=%1
) else (
set text=%text%, %1
)
goto :eof
:end
echo %text% >newlist.txt
Quote from: Ceeler on March 28, 2008, 02:19:21 PM

I'm not sure I'll be in an environment where VB scripts will work, but if that's my *only* way, so be it.