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Thank you. &nbsp;The only correction I had to make was my own really, I have to put %%i (and for the other VARs too) in a batch script. Need double percent signs instead of single.
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Thank you.  The only correction I had to make was my own really, I have to put %%i (and for the other VARs too) in a batch script. Need double percent signs instead of single.

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You can add a <a href="http://www.ss64.com/nt/goto.html" rel="ugc">GOTO</a> command to skip to a label after it reads the first line.<br />
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<pre><code id="code-295835">for /f &quot;tokens=3,4,5,6&quot; %i in (myfile.txt) do (
 @echo %i %j %k %l
 goto :_next
) 
:_next
REM rest of script here
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You can add a GOTO [http://www.ss64.com/nt/goto.html] command to skip to a label after it reads the first line.




for /f "tokens=3,4,5,6" %i in (myfile.txt) do (
 @echo %i %j %k %l
 goto :_next
) 
:_next
REM rest of script here


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SHIFT-3 the other way is just to do this:<br />
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for /f &quot;tokens=3,4,5,6&quot; %i in (myfile.txt) do @echo %i %j %k %l &amp;&nbsp;goto :eof
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SHIFT-3 the other way is just to do this:

for /f "tokens=3,4,5,6" %i in (myfile.txt) do @echo %i %j %k %l & goto :eof

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Thanks. &nbsp;I appreciate it!!!
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I'm currently using the line below in a batch script to find data in a text file.<br />
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for /f &quot;tokens=3,4,5,6&quot; %i in (myfile.txt) do @echo %i %j %k %l<br />
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The data (or columns) I want (3,4,5,6) are only from the 1st line of text in my input file myfile.txt.<br />
My script will read the entire file and I'll end up with way more output than I need. I'd like to just scan the first line in my file for the data then exit. What do I need to do?<br />
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-thanks!<br />
Bob<br />

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I'm currently using the line below in a batch script to find data in a text file.

for /f "tokens=3,4,5,6" %i in (myfile.txt) do @echo %i %j %k %l

The data (or columns) I want (3,4,5,6) are only from the 1st line of text in my input file myfile.txt.
My script will read the entire file and I'll end up with way more output than I need. I'd like to just scan the first line in my file for the data then exit. What do I need to do?

-thanks!
Bob


FOR /F Tokens script to read first line only.

Batch files are text files containing a script of commands that are executed by the command interpreter on DOS, OS/2 and Windows systems. Most commonly, they are used to perform a series of functions that are repeated -- copying a set of files created daily with one step, for example.