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Which line do you want to delete?<br />
<br />
There will be nothing else on the line?<br />
<br />
~bp
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Which line do you want to delete?

There will be nothing else on the line?

~bp

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At a command line (or in a BAT file) you could just do:<br />
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<b>findstr /v /r /c:&quot;window.width=\[[0-9]*\<wbr />]&quot; in.txt &gt;&nbsp;out.txt</b><br />
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to eliminate that line for example.<br />
<br />
<i>~bp</i>
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At a command line (or in a BAT file) you could just do:

findstr /v /r /c:"window.width=\[[0-9]*\]" in.txt > out.txt

to eliminate that line for example.

~bp

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This worked nicely!<br />
I used findstr /v /r /c:&quot;window.height=*&quot; <br />
How can I add the other search criteria into the same findstr line? ( &quot;window.width=*&quot; , &quot;window.x=*&quot;, &quot;window.y=*&quot; )
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This worked nicely!
I used findstr /v /r /c:"window.height=*"
How can I add the other search criteria into the same findstr line? ( "window.width=*" , "window.x=*", "window.y=*" )

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This seems to work. I don't see why I have to add the outside &quot;[&quot; without the closing &quot;]&quot;. Maybe Bill or another expert can explain why. Anyway, it works.<br />
<br />
findstr /v /r /c:&quot;window.[\&lt;x\&gt;\&lt;y\&gt;\&lt;wi<wbr />dth\&gt;\&lt;hei<wbr />ght\&gt;=\[[0<wbr />-9]*\]&quot; in.txt
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This seems to work. I don't see why I have to add the outside "[" without the closing "]". Maybe Bill or another expert can explain why. Anyway, it works.

findstr /v /r /c:"window.[\<x\>\<y\>\<width\>\<height\>=\[[0-9]*\]" in.txt

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Thanks for the update, Bill.<br />
<br />
I've found separating the word boundaries with spaces and removing the /C literal switch works:<br />

<pre><code id="code-20-40617541-1">findstr /v /r &quot;window.\&lt;x\&gt; \&lt;y\&gt; \&lt;width\&gt; \&lt;height\&gt; =\[[0-9]*\]&quot;</code></pre>
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Thanks for the update, Bill.

I've found separating the word boundaries with spaces and removing the /C literal switch works:


findstr /v /r "window.\<x\> \<y\> \<width\> \<height\> =\[[0-9]*\]"

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@NewVillageIT,<br />
<br />
That last one is a bit too aggressive, notice the following test case where it discards too many lines:<br />
<br />
<b>IN.TXT</b><br />

<pre><code id="code-20-40617550-1">FIRST
window.x=[1234]
window.y=[1235]
window.z=[1235]
window.width=[1236]
window.height=[1237]
door.x=[1234]
door.y=[1235]
LAST</code></pre>
<br />
<b>OUT.TXT</b><br />

<pre><code id="code-20-40617550-2">FIRST
LAST</code></pre>
<br />
<i>~bp</i>
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@NewVillageIT,

That last one is a bit too aggressive, notice the following test case where it discards too many lines:

IN.TXT


FIRST
window.x=[1234]
window.y=[1235]
window.z=[1235]
window.width=[1236]
window.height=[1237]
door.x=[1234]
door.y=[1235]
LAST


OUT.TXT


FIRST
LAST


~bp

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Thanks, glad that was useful.<br />
<br />
<i>~bp</i>
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Looking for a script that will search/delete a line in an ini file. The script should only delete the line that matches, nothing else. <br />
<br />
Inside the script will look like this.<br />
<br />
window.x=[some #]<br />
window.y=[some #]<br />
window.width=[some #]<br />
window.height=[some #]
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Looking for a script that will search/delete a line in an ini file. The script should only delete the line that matches, nothing else. 

Inside the script will look like this.

window.x=[some #]
window.y=[some #]
window.width=[some #]
window.height=[some #]

Windows Script to search a files and delete value

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Windows Batch

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VB Script

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