If you look at the findstr description:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490907.aspx[
^] your code is not going to work, or even close to.
The format for findstr is:
FINDSTR [options] string filename
Your code doesn't include the file, so it has nothing to serach, and it is looking for an exact match on an 'a', followed by a comma, followed by a 'b', followed by a comma, followed by...
Instead try:
FINDSTR /m "[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789]+" 123.txt
I don't guarantee it will work, but it stands a better chance than your version! :laugh: