Extracting string from any non-binary file irrespective of its location within file

Question

OK, here is a problem I have been unsuccessfully trying to cope with, writing a batch script. Suppose I have a file containing, say, some youtube addresses (for example a ht

Answer 1

I'll use another scripting language as Bat to do that. Here I made a little exemple in Autoit :

StringBetween.au3

#include 
Local $hOutFile=FileOpen("output.txt",2)
Local $hTexte=FileRead($CmdLine[1])
$AFind=_StringBetween($hTexte,$cmdline[2],$cmdline[3])
For $i= 0 To UBound($Afind)-1 step 1
   FileWrite($hOutFile,$AFind[$i]&@crlf)
Next
FileClose($hOutFile)

You can compile it yourself or Download it already compiled here :

StringBetween.rar

Usage :

Stringbetween [InPutFile] [StringRight] [StringLeft]

Ouput : "Output.txt"

In your case :

Stringbetween.exe "example.html" ""

A file "Output.txt" will be created with :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYtGl1dX5qI&list=RD9bZkp7q19f0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWA2pjMjpBs&list=RD9bZkp7q19f0