Shell Data Gatherer - Printable Version

[Shell] Data Gatherer - Printable Version

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Data Gatherer - nsevyd - Aug 28, 2015

Hey guys,

Its me again, some of you may already know that I am new to batch and may have seen my other post on the text game I made, I got very positive feedback so I decided to upload this which I just finished making 😁

So this one contains two batch files. One of them is a Data Gatherer which will gather data and store it in a new text file which is stored in a new directory. This is the one you want to run first. The second one is a data reader and this contains an interactive menu with multiple options. With this one when you enter the Users Name it will display there data previously created with the last batch file. The code is below 👍

This is the Data Gatherer.

Code 
@echo off

set /p userForename=What is your forename: 

cls

set /p userSurname=What is your surname: 

cls

set /p userJobTitle=What is your current job title: 

cls

set /p userSalary=What is your current salary: 

cls

set /p userPeriod=How many months have you been working at your current job: 

cls1

MKDIR UserData1

CD UserData

echo Forename: %userForename% > %userForename%%userSurname%Data.txt

echo Surname: %userSurname% >> %userForename%%userSurname%Data.txt

echo Job Title: %userJobTitle% >> %userForename%%userSurname%Data.txt

echo Salary: $%userSalary% >> %userForename%%userSurname%Data.txt

echo Current working period: %userPeriod% Months >> %userForename%%userSurname%Data.txt

This is the Data Reader.

Code 
@echo off

:menu

cls

echo -----------

echo Data Reader

echo -----------

echo 1. Read Data

echo 2. Options

echo 3. Close

echo.

set /p menuChoice=

if %menuChoice% == 1 goto  :readData

if %menuChoice% == 2 goto :Options

if %menuChoice% == 3 exit (

) else (

echo.

echo Please enter a valid option...

pause >nul

goto :menu

)

:readData

CD UserData

cls

set /p userForename= Enter users forename: 

set /p userSurname= Enter users surname: 

(

set /p line1=

set /p line2=

set /p line3=

set /p line4=

set /p line5=

) < %userForename%%userSurname%Data.txt

cls

echo %userForename% %userSurname%'s Data:

echo.

echo %line1%

echo %line2%

echo %line3%

echo %line4%

echo %line5%

echo.

echo Press ^<enter^> to return to the menu...

pause >nul

goto :menu

:Options

cls

echo ----------

echo Text Color

echo ----------

echo 1. Blue

echo 2. Green

echo 3. Aqua

echo 4. Red

echo 5. Purple

echo 6. Yellow

echo 7. White

echo 8. Grey

echo 9. Light Blue

echo A. Light Green

echo B. Light Aqua

echo C. Light Red

echo D. Light Purple

echo E. Light Yellow

echo F. Bright White

echo.

set /p colorChoice= Select a color:

if %colorChoice% == 1 (

color 01

cls

echo Color has been changed to Blue

)

if %colorChoice% == 2 (

color 02

cls

echo Color has been changed to Green

) 

if %colorChoice% == 3 (

color 03

cls

echo Color has been changed to Aqua

)

if %colorChoice% == 4 (

color 04

cls

echo Color has been changed to Red

)

if %colorChoice% == 5 (

color 05

cls

echo Color has been changed to Purple

)

if %colorChoice% == 6 (

color 06

cls

echo Color has been changed to Yellow

)

if %colorChoice% == 7 (

color 07

cls

echo Color has been changed to White

)

if %colorChoice% == 8 (

color 08

cls

echo Color has been changed to Grey

)

if %colorChoice% == 9 (

color 09

cls

echo Color has been changed to Light Blue

)

if %colorChoice% == a (

color 0a

cls

echo Color has been changed to Light Green

)

if %colorChoice% == b (

color 0b

cls

echo Color has been changed to Light Aqua

)

if %colorChoice% == c (

color 0c

cls

echo Color has been changed to Light Red

)

if %colorChoice% == d (

color 0d

cls

echo Color has been changed to Light Purple

)

if %colorChoice% == e (

color 0e

cls

echo Color has been changed to Light Yellow

)

if %colorChoice% == f (

color 0f

cls

echo Color has been changed to Bright White

)

echo.

echo Press ^<enter^> to return to the menu...

pause >nul

goto menu

Please leave feedback and also I don't mind anyone using this code so use it as you wish 😁

* - 'Palladium - Aug 29, 2015

Very nice code for a beginner, keep it up and maybe script some more "useful" applications. No hard feelings.

* - Mr Robot. - Aug 29, 2015

When reading data, it gives an "ECHO IS OFF" error.
Try removing @echo off in the second one.

* - Ventriloquism - Aug 29, 2015

(Aug 28, 2015 08:04 PM)nsevyd Wrote: Please leave feedback...

Alrighty 😁

Not saying that this method is better, but is one of my good favorites:

Code 
@echo off >Nul

Set "txtfile=Data.txt"

set/p "a=What is your forename: "

set/p "b=What is your surname: "

set/p "c=What is your current job title: "

set/p "d=What is your current salary: "

set/p "e=How many months have you been working at your current job: "

REM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

echo Forename: %a% >Data.txt

echo Surname: %d% >>Data.txt

echo Job Title: %c% >>Data.txt

echo Salary: %d% >>Data.txt

echo Work Period: %e% >>Data.txt

REM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

cls

For /f "delims=" %%a in (%txtfile%) do (

echo %%a

)

pause >nul

@exit /b

By using that FOR Statement, if will automatically echo everything in the textfile...possibly eliminating unnecessary code.

Thought it might make your life easier. Idk 🤝

* - nsevyd - Aug 29, 2015

(Aug 29, 2015 07:19 AM)RοuterΜelter Wrote: Alrighty 😁

Not saying that this method is better, but is one of my good favorites:

Code
@echo off >Nul Set "txtfile=Data.txt" set/p "a=What is your forename: " set/p "b=What is your surname: " set/p "c=What is your current job title: " set/p "d=What is your current salary: " set/p "e=How many months have you been working at your current job: " REM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= echo Forename: %a% >Data.txt echo Surname: %d% >>Data.txt echo Job Title: %c% >>Data.txt echo Salary: %d% >>Data.txt echo Work Period: %e% >>Data.txt REM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= cls For /f "delims=" %%a in (%txtfile%) do ( echo %%a ) pause >nul @exit /b
By using that FOR Statement, if will automatically echo everything in the textfile...possibly eliminating unnecessary code.

Thought it might make your life easier. Idk 🤝

Thanks for showing me how I can implement the for statement into my code 😁 Learnt something new today 👍

* - Ventriloquism - Aug 29, 2015

(Aug 29, 2015 11:38 AM)nsevyd Wrote: Thanks for showing me how I can implement the for statement into my code 😁 Learnt something new today 👍

I just figured it would save you some time 🤝

* - Advertisement - Aug 29, 2015

(Aug 29, 2015 12:28 PM)RοuterΜelter Wrote: I just figured it would save you some time 🤝

Would tokens=* not be more efficient

* - Ventriloquism - Sep 1, 2015

(Aug 29, 2015 03:04 PM)Harima Wrote: Would tokens=* not be more efficient

Well for one thing, delimiters are the shit 😝 And I guess it might...how would you do it?

* - annikk.exe - Sep 1, 2015

An alternative to For /f "delims=" is For /f "tokens=*"

They both have the effect of chucking the entire line of text into the first token.
They are both just as effective as each other, but on balance I prefer "delims=" because it's 1 character less. :P

* - Ventriloquism - Sep 1, 2015

(Sep 1, 2015 08:04 AM)annikk.exe Wrote: An alternative to For /f "delims=" is For /f "tokens=*"

They both have the effect of chucking the entire line of text into the first token.
They are both just as effective as each other, but on balance I prefer "delims=" because it's 1 character less. :P

That's what I thought. This is another reason why delimiters are simply the best 🎉