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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have two text files that contain numbers. I need to write a script that can determine whether a given number exists in both of these text files. If it does, I need to delete that line from each of the two files. How do I do that?-- KT Hey, KT. Before we get started today, we have a little business to take care of. First of ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I read one of your columns on replacing text in a file and I found it very useful. However, I have a somewhat more-complicated need: I want to replace text that includes both double quote marks and a tab character. How can I do that?-- FC Hey, FC. Your know, as anyone who’s ever read Hey, Scripting Guy! could tell you, the Sc...

Hey, Scripting Guy! For testing purposes I need to create a bunch of empty .WAV files in a folder. How can I write a script that will create those files for me?-- ZL Hey, ZL. You know, yesterday was a very exciting day for the Scripting Guy who writes this column: he got to work from home, just like Scripting Guy Jean Ross does on a regular basi...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I make the name of the file the first line of each and every text file in a folder?-- DJ Hey, DJ. And, by the way, we hope your day is going better than ours. Are we having a bad day? You might say that. For example, this morning the Scripting Guy who writes this column zoomed right past the grocery store where he buy...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a whole bunch of text files in a folder. I need to open each of these files, extract everything between the <filecount> and </filecount> tags, and then write that information to a separate file. How can I do that?-- RP Hey, RP. You know, the other day the Scripting Guy who writes this column and the Scripti...