Command: choice, _choice
CHOICE / _CHOICE suspends processing and waits for the user to press a
valid key from a given list of choices. Choice gives out an ERRORLEVEL
which can be used for further work.
Syntax:
CHOICE [ /B ] [ /C[:]choices ] [ /N ] [ /S ] [ /T[:]c,nn ] [ text ]
[/?]
_CHOICE [ /B ] [ /C[:]choices ] [ /N ] [ /S ] [ /T[:]c,nn ] [ text ]
[/?]
Options:
/B Sound an alert (beep) at prompt.
/C[:] choices - Specifies allowable keys. Default is: yn (if
/C was not used), you may also be 0 - 9 or A - Z.
/N Do not display the choices and ? at end of prompt.
/S Treat choices as case-sensitive.
/T[:]c,nn Automatically choose key c after nn seconds.
c must be one of the keys specified with /C; nn may be a
value between 0 and 99.
text The text to display as a prompt (default=none).
/? Shows the help.
Comments:
CHOICE shows the messages according to the file:
%NLSPATH%\CHOICE.%LANG%,
where LANG is SET in the environment variable in AUTOEXEC.BAT and
NLSPATH is the path to the national language files.
_CHOICE uses english texts only.
CHOICE is not a command internal to command.com and needs a
choice file in order to work.
CHOICE supports NLS (national language support).
CHOICE has the following EXITCODES (ERRORLEVEL):
0 if aborted
... ERRORLEVEL is set to offset of key user presses in choices.
255 any error
Examples:
IN A BATCH FILE:
@ECHO 1 = Do this
@ECHO 2 = Do that
@ECHO 3 = Do another thing
@ECHO 4 = Do nothing
@choice /B /C:1234 /N /S What do you want to do?
if errorlevel 4 goto DONOTHING
if errorlevel 3 goto DOANOTHER
if errorlevel 2 goto DOTHAT
if errorlevel 1 goto DOTHIS
:DOTHIS
your DOTHIS-commands
goto EXIT
:DOTHAT
your DOTHAT-commands
goto EXIT
:DOANOTHER
your DOANOTHER-commands
goto EXIT
:DONOTHING
your DONOTHING-commands
goto EXIT
:EXIT
See also:
autoexec.bat
batch files
if
goto
pause
set
Copyright © 1994-2003 Jim Hall, updated 2008 by W. Spiegl.
This file is derived from the FreeDOS Spec Command HOWTO.
See the file H2Cpying for copying conditions.