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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a text file that contains a bunch of names. How can I read through that text file and eliminate all the duplicate names?-- MW Hey, MW. We’re assuming you have a text file that looks something like this:Ken Myer Dean Tsaltas Jonathan Haas Ken Myer Dean Tsaltas Syed Abbas Gail Erickson Carol Phillips Dean Tsaltas Dylan M...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I check a text file to see if a word appears in that file and, if it doesn’t, add the word to the file?-- JO Hey, JO. We seem to have gotten quite a few questions on this topic lately. You mentioned adding words to a custom dictionary for Microsoft Word; other people mentioned adding an entry to an LMHosts file or som...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m using the FileSystemObject to create an XML file. However, I need to put double quote marks around some of the items in that file. How do I do that?-- JP Hey, JP. According to your email, you’re trying to write the following line to your XML file:<? xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" ?> However, you’re getting ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a text file that contains a list of computer names. How can I sort that file alphabetically?-- LR Hey, LR. If we wanted to take the easy way out we’d just tell you, “Sorry, you can’t do that.” And we could get away with that because none of Microsoft’s scripting technologies feature a way to open up and then sort a tex...

Guy! I would like to be able to open a file, read the first 10 characters, and then rename the file to those 10 characters plus a .txt file extension. How can I do that?-- KA Hey, KA. Ah, for once a text file question that can be answered without some weird and convoluted workaround. This is actually pretty easy: we can use the FileSystemObject to...