Grabbing html text with @line

[David_Wolfe]

Trying to grab a line from an html file using @line but the < and/or > characters on the line seem to be causing the function to fail.

Example:

[C:\Users\dawolfe\Desktop]echo %@line[0,test1.txt]
TCC: (Sys) The parameter is incorrect.
"%@line[0,test1.txt]"

First line of the file contains:

<sdfgsdfgsdw4>

Is there a way of making this work?

 

[vefatica]

Trying to grab a line from an html file using @line but the < and/or > characters on the line seem to be causing the function to fail.

Example:

[C:\Users\dawolfe\Desktop]echo %@line[0,test1.txt]
TCC: (Sys) The parameter is incorrect.
"%@line[0,test1.txt]"

First line of the file contains:

<sdfgsdfgsdw4>

Is there a way of making this work?

The correct syntax is @line[test1.txt,0] (the filename first). But that will also fail because of the redirection symbols (<,>).

You could

v:\> setdos /x-6 & echo %@line[test1.txt,0] & setdos /x+6
<sdfgsdfgsdw4>

That specifically targets the redirection characters. I suspect that other difficulties would arise in HTML files (like %, for example).

 

[rconn]

The trouble here is with ECHO, not @LINE. If you want to ECHO a variable that contains special characters, you need to protect it somehow. ( Double quotes, SETDOS , et .)

 

[David_Wolfe]

Thanks guys. Both suggestions worked great.