Re: exit /b does not work properly in subroutines

Phil

Thanks for input but this is not what I need: I should be able to quit
entire batch from within subprogram conditionally.
Also I do not understand why simple documented by Microsoft function ("exit
/b") does not work as expected.

Martin

"Phil Robyn" <phil_robyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:qZqdnY5Ki7AY3vzZnZ2dnUVZ_sadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Martin Rakhmanov wrote:
Hello

According to MSFT documentation (help exit) I expect "exit /b 1" called
within a batch to exit current batch and set ERRORLEVEL to 1. But this
does
not work when I call exit /b in a subroutine - see attached batch. Why?
I
am running Windows Server 2003 SP1.

Martin




How about this version?

- - - - - - - begin screen capture WinXP MCE 2005 SP2 - - - - - - -
=====begin c:\cmd\demo\sample.cmd ====================
01. @echo off
02. setlocal
03. set exit=goto :EOF
04. call :MyLabel %1
05. %exit%
06. echo This line should never be reached
07.
08. goto :EOF
09.
10. :MyLabel
11.
12. if NOT "%~1"=="unknownoption" (
13. echo Hello from subprogram
14. set exit=exit /b 1
15. goto :EOF
16. )
=====end c:\cmd\demo\sample.cmd ====================
- - - - - - - end screen capture WinXP MCE 2005 SP2 - - - - - - -


--
Phil Robyn
University of California, Berkeley


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