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.