TXT file and passes them to a secondary routine.
The secondary FOR loop processes the individual file entries returned by the Dir command.
Notice the two additions to the FOR command. First, you must provide the ???delims==??? option so
that the FOR loop doesn??™t cut off the paths at the first space. Second, notice that this FOR loop doesn??™t
process the data as a file; it uses the command representation instead. Remember that single quotes
are for commands and double quotes are for strings. The resulting Output.CSV file contains a pure
string representation that you could open in Notepad if desired. However, the power of this particular
routine is that you can also open it as a database in a database application or even in Excel.
Figure 5.7 shows typical output presented in Excel.
Figure 5.7
CSV files make it
very easy to move data
to a spreadsheet or
database.
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This chapter has demonstrated the functionality that batch files can provide. If you work at the
command line very often, you should have a full set of batch files to augment your toolkit. Batch
files are a very simple form of programming that can produce dramatic results because they rely on
the power of the commands that Windows provides at the command prompt.
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