[prodsupptech]

Anyone,
I am in the process of trying to figure out how to make a program that takes a column of numbers and puts it in a row so I can search for it using Windows Search. i.e.
Before
######
######
######
######
######
######
After ######.tif, ######.tif, ######.tif, etc
I can handle the .tif part I believe I just need to get it to go horizontal. Let me know if this is even possible to do.

Thanks

[Rockn]

You need to take whatever columnar text you have and convert it to a string seperated by commas. I don't think Windows search will look for strings inside of a text file.

[Gibble]

Originally Posted by Rockn

I don't think Windows search will look for strings inside of a text file.

Yes it will

[Shadow2531]

Originally Posted by Gibble

Yes it will

Yep, the "Containing text:" box.

[prodsupptech]

I never said we would search inside a text file. That would only find the text file we are searching for. What I should have said is once it converts the vertical format to a horizontal format and we add the .tif, then we copy it and paste into Windows search. That's what I need to do. Doing a search for containing text will only find the name of the file since the tif number is meaningless besides being the filename.

[Squashman]

Hmm, another thing I could easily do in a Bash Script. I really have to learn Windows Batch scripting or VB one of these days.

[Shadow2531]

Try this.

usage: for_search.exe [source file] [target file] [extension]

eg.

for_search file.txt newfile.txt .tif

The row version would be in newfile.txt

You can also overwrite the current file if you wanted to.

It should handle invalid lines pretty well, but it's not thoroughly tested.

[prodsupptech]

Shadow!!!! Hell yeah...Thank you so much that is what I'm looking for exactly...you are the man.