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Hey, scripting Guy! I have about 5,000 text files that have unwanted tabs at the end of each line. How can I write a script that removes these unwanted tabs?-- TT Note. If this looks – and sounds – a little different than the typical Hey, Scripting Guy! column, well, there’s a good reason for that: that’s because it is a little different th...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a text file that has a list of search terms in it. I would like to write a script that can search for each of those terms in a second file, and then report back any of the terms that couldn’t be found in that second file. How do I do that?-- PH Hey, PH. You know, this is a good day for the Scripting Guy who writes this...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that uses Netsh.exe to return information from my DHCP servers; all that information is then written to a text file. That works great, except that I need to be able to parse the data and pull out any IP addresses included in that information. How can I write a script that extracts just the IP addresses from a t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I read a text file until I encounter a specified phrase, then write that information to a new text file? I then need to repeat this process, reading the text file to the next instance of the phrase and then writing that information to another new file. And so on.-- EW Hey, EW. You know, this has been a difficult year ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I remove any line in a text file that contains the string f0?-- CJ Hey, CJ. Before we begin, we have a question for you: are you by any chance a serious player of online video games like EverQuest or World of Warcraft? Admittedly, none of the Scripting Guys play these games; we still find Pong to be a little over-stim...