Thanks for the response. That is an interesting concept. I will work
with it. Thanks again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Script help

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Steve Kelsay <[email protected]>
wrote:
> The file names end in the characters "CTY" and a serial number from
1-50
> IE xxxxCTY01.pdf. The files will need to be moved to a subfolder that
> starts with the serial number, in this case for example, xxxxCTY01.pdf
> would be moved to the subfolder named 01Abbeville. I do not know quite
> how to go about this. Can anyone give me a lead to where to start?

  Can't take the time to provide tested working code, but CMD has some
features for extracting substrings built-in to variable expansion.
"SET /?" will give you a reference.  You should be able to do
something like

        FOR %%f IN (*CTY??.PDF) DO (
                SET FILE=%%f
                SET SERIAL=%FILE:~-2%
                SET DIR=%SERIAL%Abbeville
                IF NOT EXIST %DIR% MKDIR %DIR%
                MOVE %FILE% %DIR%
        )

  Again, above is untested.

-- Ben

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