Delete Single Double Quote From Last Line of a Text File

Question

There is always a single double quote at the end of a text file...

"1","abc","123"
"2","abcd","456"
"3","abce","789"
"

I need a command to run via cmd.exe to delete the last line (the single double quote) only...

"1","abc","123"
"2","abcd","456"
"3","abce","789"

This may help you. https://stackoverflow.com/q/418916/7320612 — Vignesh Vaidyanathan, Jun 14 '17 at 16:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '17 at 17:06

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extended my previous answer:

@echo off
copy t.txt old.txt
<nul >"new.txt" set /p x="""
>>"new.txt" (type "old.txt" |findstr /v "^.$")
rem move /y "old.txt" "new.txt"
type new.txt

The additional findstr /v excludes lines with a single character (it's quite difficult to work with a ", but I guess, a "single character line" is good enough)

answered Jun 14 '17 at 17:06

Stephan

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Actually if it makes it any easier code wise it's always the last line in the file.... – Ian Carrick Jun 14 '17 at 17:21

Delete Single Double Quote From Last Line of a Text File

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