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   foxidrive to milpkbk@googlemail.com   
   Re: Two page number sequenced files to a   
   10 Jun 15 01:13:27   
   
   From: foxidrive@server.invalid   
      
   Juts commenting that a programmer needs to use exact terms in a very   
   literal language to perform an exact task.   
      
   Someone else may have a crack at it, but your answers give me no confidence   
   that even the three digit number is accurate - it could be 2 digits or be a   
   date, and then any code will have to be rewritten to match the new details.   
      
   If I had a beer for every time the question changed as the thread   
   progressed, I would have died of alcohol poisoning 15 years ago. :D   
      
      
      
   On 9/06/2015 21:06, milpkbk@googlemail.com wrote:   
   > I need help;   
   >   
   > I little experience in Batch Scripting and I was suggested i should try here.   
   >   
   > I need to extract two files at a time that are located in a folder, all   
   other files in the folder will need to do the same to follow in sequence, file   
   called :   
   > Filename_002.doc   
   > Filename_003.doc   
   > Filename_004.doc   
   > Filename_005.doc   
   > Filename_006.doc   
   > Filename_007.doc   
   > Filename_008.doc   
   >   
   > Etc would go onto possible up to 264 docs and possibly more.   
   >   
   > I need to extract a pair Filename_002.doc & Filename_003.doc to a folder   
   named folder. I would end up with just two pages in each folder from the first   
   page number, in this case folder 002 would contain filename_002.doc and   
   filename_003.doc and so on.   
   >   
   > 4 & 5   
   > 6 & 7 etc.   
   >   
   > Can you help advise what i should be looking to do, open question and I do   
   hope to learn from this, if you guys can help.   
   >   
   > Regards   
   >   
   > Major   
   >   
      
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