batch file with 2 "For /F" loops

[BlackieHamel]

I have been using a program to make word puzzles, and it runs in a command window. I use a batch file to input sets of 3-letter combinations, using a FOR /F loop, like this:

FOR /F "tokens=1,2" %%A in (input1.txt) DO puzzlemaker bow %%A ase %%B

In this example, I have a file, input.txt, with many rows containing two trigrams. Here's the beginning 7 rows of input.txt
ABS ENT
ACR NOU
ACU AIN
AFT ATH
AIR ACK
AIR DER
AIR KET

The above code does a wonderful job of feeding these rows, one at a time, to puzzlemaker.exe. Here's what my dream enhancement would be. See the "bow" and "ase" in the code above. Suppose I have another file, input2.txt, in which
BOW ASE
is just the first line. If input1.txt has 15 lines and input2.txt has 10 lines, I would like a loop command that tries 15x10 = 150 possible sets of four arguments to follow puzzlemaker in the command.

Can this be done in batch file language?

Thanks.

Blackie

 

[BlackieHamel]

I found my answer elsewhere, so I'll post it here in case anyone is interested. Here I'm replacing "puzzlemaker" with ECHO, since the puzzlemaker output is irrelevant.

FOR /F "tokens=1,2" %%A in (input1.txt) DO FOR /F "tokens=1,2" %%C in (input2.txt) DO echo %%A %%C %%B %%D

If INPUT1.TXT is
ABS ENT
ACR NOU
ACU AIN

and INPUT2.TXT is
DVE NCE
EEE VEZ
EER ICE

Then the above code will interlace the two files thus:

ABS DVE ENT NCE
ABS EEE ENT VEZ
ABS EER ENT ICE
ACR DVE NOU NCE
ACR EEE NOU VEZ
ACR EER NOU ICE
ACU DVE AIN NCE
ACU EEE AIN VEZ
ACU EER AIN ICE

The main thing I was missing was that second DO in the statement.

Blackie