Problem with underscore in findstr literal string

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On 9 Jul 2005 10:42:27 -0700, "borgulyp" <borgulyp@gmx.ch> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I've written a series of batch jobs, where one job writes into a log
>file (success/failure) and the next one then checks to see if job1 was
>successfull. The batch is to process a series of reports. I am using
>the path to the report to find the right entry in the log file.
>
>Now the path has changed and newly includes an underscore (_)
>character. Since then, the findstr does not work as expected anymore. I
>can find no reference that _ is some kind of special character. If I
>escape the _ (manually, that is), the findstr works.
>
>=== Script ===
>set TARGETREPORT=\\vfbdn114\eglch$\_Projekte\MidOffice
>Report\Testing\RC Energy per Book.xls
>set STRING=%TARGETREPORT% Status: SUCCESS
>findstr /c:"%STRING%" "c:\temp\Reports_20050709_085932.log"
>IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 1 goto failure
>IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 goto end
>:failure
>ECHO fail=%ERRORLEVEL%
>:end
>ECHO ok=%ERRORLEVEL%
>== End Script ===
>
>The complete string in the log file is
>
>"09.07.2005 17:52:44 Report generation
>\\vfbdn114\eglch$\_Projekte\MidOffice Report\Testing\RC Energy per
>Book.xls Status: SUCCESS "
>
>If I change the first line of the script to
>set TARGETREPORT=\\vfbdn114\\eglch$\_Projekte\MidOffice
>Report\Testing\RC Energy per Book.xls
>
>Any ideas ?
>Thanks

As an experiment change the findstr to
findstr /L /c:"%STRING%" "c:\temp\Reports_20050709_085932.log"