22 WRITING REPORTS
Even if squinting hard enough to provoke an aneurysm, no one will ever mistake Batch for Power BI or other similar report writers, but when you want a simple formatted text report, Batch is one tool that’s up to the challenge.
In this chapter, we’ll build a report with real-world data from a pipe-delimited input file. With two pseudo-environment variables from the previous chapter, you’ll learn how to build a title with the current date and time, and formatted column headers. You’ll also create detail records by reading the input file with a certain command you learned about in Part II. I’ll share a few techniques for ...
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