Question

I want to write a vbscript or batch file to run over almost a hundred files (in the same directory) and do the following:

For each line that starts with the string "component " (there is a space after component)
I want to add at the end of that line a space. Other lines won’t be affected.

For example:

this is line one
component this is line two
this is line three

will change to:

this is line one
component this is line two (<=space)
this is line three

(There is only one space after the word “two”.)

Answer 1

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1,* delims= " %%a in (file.txt) do (
if "%%a"=="component" (
echo %%a %%b >>temp.txt
) else (
echo %%a %%b>>temp.txt
)
)
del file.txt /f /s /q
ren temp.txt file.txt