Oops - I ran into a problem trying to use DOS to write to an html file

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Posted by JB on March 30, 2008 at 20:46:38:

Thanks for the help I got on this forum when I asked about using a DOS batch program to write to a file. I was able to use FOR to append lines of info to a file, but when I tried to append info to an html file, the angle brackets in HTML (for example xxx) seem to mess up the FOR sequence. No part of the FOR sequence will work and it reports a FILE NOT FOUND error. Obviously it is interpreting the angle brackets in some way (as a file name?). If I put the angle-bracketed word in quotes, the FOR sequence will work until it reaches that point and then it stops. If I put the angle-bracketed word in double quotes, the batch file works, but it completely ignores the angle-bracketed word. It does not write it to the file. The sequence goes right on as if it wasn't there at all. Is there any way to write an angle bracket to a file?


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