batch file help

Little help! I'm having some serious brain farts today. I drank a little too much last night. :(

Say I have a .txt file that contains some data.

The data is separated by different headings. Something like this:

Quote:

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(data1)
abunchofstuffabunchofstuffabunchofstuffabunchofstuffabunchofstuff
(data1)

(data2)
abunchofstuffabunchofstuffabunchofstuffabunchofstuffabunchofstuff
(data2)

(data3)
abunchofstuffabunchofstuffabunchofstuffabunchofstuffabunchofstuff
(data3)

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I want to (from command line or batch file) do a find and output data2 to another file.

So, I'm using

find "(data2)" datafile.txt >> newdatafile.txt

All it copies over is the "(data2)" headings but nothing between.

How can I make it copy ALL the contents between the (data2) headers?

Thanks in advance!

What about the following:

Code:

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@echo off
rm printflag.
for /F "tokens=1* delims=" %%i in (datafile.txt) do (


  if "%%i" == "(data2)" (

        if exist printflag. (
                del printflag.
        ) else (
                echo printit > printflag.
        )

  )

  if exist printflag. (
      echo %%i >> newdatafile.txt
  )       


)
echo (data2) >> newdatafile.txt

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good idea. I was thinking that it'd be much easier... but what you say can work too.

Thanks! I'd green but I have to spread. :)

Hi.

It's not a fast solution, but at least it works.
From time to time I am unhappy with the batch-capabilities of the "standard"
windows command shell - unhappy, when I compare with *nix-systems.
From time to time, I have to do stuff like the above on both systems.

Quote:

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Thanks! I'd green but I have to spread

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The same occurs to me also regularily ;),
when I want to green.


/edit: Hm. I was looking at some of my shell-scripts and adopted one to do the
same as above. Please don't laugh, but can you something more elegant?
A standard-command I missed?

Code:

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#!/bin/sh
#assume one instance of the delimiter-pair only

last=`grep -n "(data2)" datafile.txt | awk -F: '{print $1}' |tail -1`
revfirst=`grep -n "(data2)" datafile.txt | awk -F: '{print $1}' |head -1`
revfirst=$(($last-$revfirst+1))
cat datafile.txt |head -$last |tail -$revfirst >>newdatafile.txt

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