Batch File Selection Statement- If

I am attempting to use an if statement so that if a user enters a 1 it opens a file but if they enter a 2 or a 3 it opens another file. Is this possible to do? I would have thought it so.

Does anyone has any idea or links that might help me find the answer?

Thanks in advance,


Peter

There's the CHOICE command , but its only suppported in Win95/98. If you're using 2000/XP then you might be able to download it and use it in your machine.

more info about CHOICE

for opening files you can use the START command (in case you were asking about that , too)

hope this is what you're looking for :)

Cheat and use the for command
for %answer in (1) do echo "option 1"
for %answer in (2) do echo "option 2"

A cool article on the For command:
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/robv/articles/4099.aspx

or you can make a C\C++ program that with a switch statement then use system() to open files (i.e : system("start filename.extention");)

Code:

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for %answer in (1) do "Car safe crossing script.swf"
for %answer in (2) do "Cars Crashing on Bridge.swf"

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This is what I tried for the for statement. It didn't work. Can anyone see where I may have gone wrong?

Thanks,

Quote:

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Originally Posted by heylin

Code:

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for %answer in (1) do "Car safe crossing script.swf"
for %answer in (2) do "Cars Crashing on Bridge.swf"

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This is what I tried for the for statement. It didn't work. Can anyone see where I may have gone wrong?

Thanks,

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You need to use the Start command like Brain Cell said.

for %answer in (1) do start "Car safe crossing script.swf"
for %answer in (2) do start "Cars Crashing on Bridge.swf"

Also I'm not 100% on the syntax - look it up.

On further inspecion I don't think it is possible with For. Do what Brain Cell said and write something in C/C++ (or if you want to finish it this year, maybe C#)

Hold on. Did you even try typing "If" into the console?

if %a == 1 (start someThing.swf) else (start anotherThing.swf)

Works on XPSP2 at least.

Or just realise that cmd.exe, whilst a big improvement on command.com, is still fundamentally a broken shell incapable of anything but the most basic of tasks.