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|    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       >              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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