Question

Someone great in this site give me this code at batch change folder name by read line from text file

@echo off
pushd "your root location"  
for /f "tokens=1* delims=:" %%A in (  
'findstr /srbc:"SMTP_Email_Address  *type=SZ  *[^ ][^ ]*@[^ ][^ ]*\.[^ ][^ ]*  *SMTP_Email_Address" filel.txt^|sort /r'  
) do if exist "%%A" for %%F in ("%%A\..") do (  
  for /f "tokens=3" %%N in ("%%B") do ren "%%~fF" "%%N"  
)  
popd

the code find this code perfectly

SMTP_Email_Address type=SZ [e-mail] SMTP_Email_Address

I want the code find this

<SMTP_Email_Address type="SZ">[e-mail]</SMTP_Email_Address>

because of this signs > < “” the code not work

and change the folder name by the email found in the text file inside

Answer 1

i think i understand the question.
you need to escape the special characters with the caret sign (^)
e.g.
replace

"SMTP_Email_Address  *type=SZ  *[^ ][^ ]*@[^ ][^ ]*\.[^ ][^ ]*  *SMTP_Email_Address"

with

"^<SMTP_Email_Address  *type=^"SZ^"^>  *[^ ][^ ]*@[^ ][^ ]*\.[^ ][^ ]*  *^<^/SMTP_Email_Address^>"