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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a text file containing thousands of events. I need to read each line in that file and look for the name of the computer where an operation failed. The computer names can – and will – vary in length; however, the name will always begin in character position 37, and be followed by the word failed. Oh, and there’s one othe...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a comma-separated values file (CSV) that uses double quote marks as the field delimiter; unfortunately, this file also uses a double quote mark any time it should use an apostrophe (like in the name O’Malleys). Somehow I need to remove all the delimiters and convert the appropriate double quote marks to an apostrophe. H...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to write a command-line script that, given two arguments, can compare the two values and then – using standard errorlevel – report back whether string 1 is greater than or less than string 2, or if the two strings are identical. Can you help me with that?-- JP Hey, JP. You know, in the past few days the sports world ha...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I read your article on renaming image files so that the pictures could then be sorted in chronological order. When I ran your script, however, it didn’t quite work for me: the files were renamed, but the pictures weren’t sorted the way I had hoped they would be. I think that’s because the pictures were being renamed based on t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder on a server that contains employee photos, photos that will be used on our organization chart. New photos are taken daily for new staff members, and all the .JPG files are put into this folder. Because the photos are often different sizes, I would like to write a script that checks the folder for photos that ar...