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Open muitiple text files with Notepad at once, Which is the best way to do it?

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terrylau

Jul 2 2009, 11:08 AM

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Is it possible to select all text files and open them simultaneously using Notepad? In windows we can do that by going into the selected folder, highlight all the text files and right-click Open, and all the files will be open at once in separate Notepads.

I know it's possible to read all the content of the files and write them into a single text file - but that'll be the last option if there's no way for me to do this.

I guess the flow of the process shud be something like this :

Iterate in folder until all the text files finished (no matter what the quantity of the text files)
For every file found, launch a Notepad to open it

Need your suggestion guys, as I'm still new to VB. Would appreciate it if have some code snippets to start me off. If VB is not suitable, try to suggest other alternatives - batch, perl, C/C++, etc.

Thanks.

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Unless there's some specific need for scripts or programs to do it, I think using Windows Explorer, selecting the desired files and hitting enter is the best.

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Is there a reason you must use Notepad? Text editors (notepad replacement) can open multiple files, each in their own separate tab. Exactly as you described. No need for any VB programming. I use ConTEXT.

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QUOTE(dkk @ Jul 3 2009, 07:30 AM)

Is there a reason you must use Notepad? Text editors (notepad replacement) can open multiple files, each in their own separate tab. Exactly as you described. No need for any VB programming. I use ConTEXT.

Ic... I think any text editors programs that opens multiple files will do. If that is the case, how do I go about it creating the batch file?

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QUOTE(terrylau @ Jul 3 2009, 09:21 AM)

Ic... I think any text editors programs that opens multiple files will do. If that is the case, how do I go about it creating the batch file?

CODE

for %%a in (*.txt) do (notepad %%a)

I only can think of this... But it only open the next text file after the current open text file been closed...

I do have another one, which is in VBScript

CODE

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set folder = objFSO.GetFolder(".")
Set files = folder.Files

For Each file in files
filteringText = Split(file.Name, ".")
filteredText = filteringText(UBound(filteringText))

If filteredText = "txt" Then
objShell.Run "notepad " & file
End If
Next

This will open all the text file in Notepad at once.

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