I want to use a PowerShell CLI within my batch file to find and replace text under certain conditions. This is my code:
<code>set "target=%cd%Folder 1Folder 2"
set "string=+some_text="Cat.Dog.Fox""
if /i "%input%"=="1" (
findstr /b /r /c:";%string%" "%target%Test.ini" >nul 2>nul
if "%errorlevel%"=="0" (
set "replace="
) else (
set "replace=;"
)
powershell -NoProfile -Command "$file = '%target%Test.ini'; $null = New-Item -Force $file -Value ((Get-Content -Raw -Encoding UTF8 $file) -Replace '(?m)^W*(%string%)', '%replace%$1')"
)
goto :eof
</code>
<code>set "target=%cd%Folder 1Folder 2"
set "string=+some_text="Cat.Dog.Fox""
if /i "%input%"=="1" (
findstr /b /r /c:";%string%" "%target%Test.ini" >nul 2>nul
if "%errorlevel%"=="0" (
set "replace="
) else (
set "replace=;"
)
powershell -NoProfile -Command "$file = '%target%Test.ini'; $null = New-Item -Force $file -Value ((Get-Content -Raw -Encoding UTF8 $file) -Replace '(?m)^W*(%string%)', '%replace%$1')"
)
goto :eof
</code>
set "target=%cd%Folder 1Folder 2"
set "string=+some_text="Cat.Dog.Fox""
if /i "%input%"=="1" (
findstr /b /r /c:";%string%" "%target%Test.ini" >nul 2>nul
if "%errorlevel%"=="0" (
set "replace="
) else (
set "replace=;"
)
powershell -NoProfile -Command "$file = '%target%Test.ini'; $null = New-Item -Force $file -Value ((Get-Content -Raw -Encoding UTF8 $file) -Replace '(?m)^W*(%string%)', '%replace%$1')"
)
goto :eof
I want to replace +some_text="Cat.Dog.Fox" in %cd%Folder 1Folder 2Test.ini with ;+some_text="Cat.Dog.Fox" when there’s no ; before that text. If there is a ; before +some_text="Cat.Dog.Fox" I want to delete the ;.
So basically
+some_text="Cat.Dog.Fox" becomes ;+some_text="Cat.Dog.Fox"
and with the next run
;+some_text="Cat.Dog.Fox" becomes +some_text="Cat.Dog.Fox" again.
My issue is that my code only changes the text if there is no ; before +some_text="Cat.Dog.Fox". It does delete the ; if there is one.