Simple File I/O and searching using batch
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I'm trying to do a simple bit of file I/O in batch. It's been a while since I've done batch and even then I always screwed up loops in batch anyway.

Regardless, I've to an external file that is just a list of pairs of strings, separated by a space. I need to have the script read the file, pull out the strings and use each pair as a part of the arguments into another program. I've got this second part down but I need to read the file.

Simpler:

external file file.txt has the following stuff:
STRING1 STRING2
STRING3 STRING4
...
STRINGN STRINGN+1

Script just needs to do this
:Run program with STRING1 and STRING2
:Run program with STRING3 and STRING4
...

etc etc

Thanks in advance. 