Hi. I have been trying to write this batch file (command prompt. bat file) for days now. It is due tomorrow. I am taking a degree in Computer Networking and We got asked to write a batch file. I cannot grasp computer syntax, I just find programming so difficult. I, have however, after so many hours, cans of red bull, stress, close to giving up, wrote a batch file that meets the criteria of whats been asked. All that is left now is for me to include FOR and IF into my program. Basically, my batch file Has 6 ERRORLEVELS, the 6th being quit, and 1 through 4 display a movie from a certain year simply using the findstr command. I have been trying for 8 hours to try and get my 5th errorlevel functioning. What I need it to do is Ask the User for Input. Basically saying "Please Enter A letter between A and Z to search through the list of movies". I have the list of movies sitting on my Floppy Disk, there is the title and then in brackets the year. So basically
Beautiful Boxer (2005)
Moonshine (2006)
^^ that is a small part of my List.txt.
The code I have right now is
:BROWSE
Echo Enter Letter to search movie starting with that letter: %%i
for %%i in (A:\Movie_List\List.txt) do findstr /b /i /c:"%%i" >> moviesfound.txt
if not errorlevel=1 (type moviesfound.txt)
else echo Sorry, No Movies Start with %%i in the List
del moviesfound.txt
goto :begin
In my findstr I have put /b so that is searches for the start of the text. Therefore I will get movies starting with that letter. So when My user enters the letter, it outputs the results to a file called moviesfound.txt, and then I am showing the contents of that file I have written to in my batch file. Please Guys, I know it says you should try yourself before asking homework questions, but I have tried so hard. I just don't know how to do this. Do I need the Set /p? I just need the user to enter some sort of temporary variable, then that variable to be searched for in findstr. Thanks
