From: klee@unibwm.de   
      
   On 04.05.2020 17:58, dcwhatthe@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Hi,   
   >   
   > I'm having problems getting findstr to understand the output folder name.   
   >   
   > When running findstr, it's interpreting the WORKINGFOLDER as   
   >   
   > 1>"WorkingFolder"\   
   >   
   >   
   > Rem ***********************************rem Set the base name of the CSV and   
   PDF files.   
   > SET BASENAME=THISBASENAME   
   >   
   > SET MAINFOLDER=v:\ROOT\SECOND\THIRD\MAIN FOLDER   
   >   
   > SET WORKFOLDER=v:\ROOT\SECOND\THIRD\MAIN FOLDER\WORKING FOLDER   
   >   
   > @echo on   
   > Rem Remove blanks from .CSV file, and   
   > Rem  rename from .TXT to .CSV   
   > findstr  .  "%MAINFOLDER%"\\%BASENAME%.TXT > "%WORKFOLDER%"\\%BASENAME%.CSV   
   >   
   > pause   
   >   
   > Rem ***********************************   
   >   
   > So, it interprets the above findstr line as something like   
   >   
   >   
   > findstr  .  "v:\ROOT\SECOND\THIRD\MAIN FOLDER"\\THISBASENAME.TXT    
   1>"WorkingFolder"\\THISBASENAME.CSV   
      
   If I run your code I get:   
      
      findstr  .  "v:\ROOT\SECOND\THIRD\MAIN FOLDER"\\THISBASENAME.TXT    
   1>"v:\ROOT\SECOND\THIRD\MAIN FOLDER\WORKING FOLDER"\\THISBASENAME.CSV   
      
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