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12.11.2007 at 09:40AM PST, ID: 23016158
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Find Text within a text file, and use that to rename the file

Asked by super786 in VB Script, Miscellaneous Programming

Tags: text, file, rename

I have thousands of text files in a folder. Inside each of these text files, there is a specific section for Account Numbers, such as:

"ACCT#: 0729410181" (Notice the space after the ":")

I want a script that can scan through these text files and grab the account number, and then rename the file with the account number.

So in essence, file 'testname123.txt' becomes '0729410181.txt', and then move on to the next file in the directory and perform the same function and keep on till it reaches the end.

My filelist is huge (abt 8000 of them).

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Zones: VB Script, Miscellaneous Programming
Tags: text, file, rename
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Solution Provided By: super786
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Solution Grade: A
 
 
 
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