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set /p is not taking input from keyboard
Hi I have been struggling to have "set /p" to work correctly in a batchfile. Its purpose is to print a text and ask for user input from keyboard and store this is in a variable.
Here is my code
Code is showing the text and is waiting for input but whatever i type before hit ENTER adds no value to UsersChoice. echo input was %UserChoice% only shows "input was " and nothing more. Then the if/else will be evaluated to else in line 13 printing exit (when working it will simply just exit)Code:1 if not exist %MY_FILE% ( 2 :CopyFile 3 echo copying 4 copy /y %MY_FILE% %NEW_DIRECTORY% >NUL ) else ( 5 echo %MY_FILE% already exist 6 set UsersChoice= 7 set /P UsersChoice=Overwrite before continue, Continue with old, Abort? o/c/a: 8 echo input was %UsersChoice% 9 if "%UsersChoice%"=="o" ( 10 echo overwrite 11 goto :CopyFile ) else if "%UsersChoice%"=="c" ( 12 echo continue 13 goto :Continue ) else ( 14 echo exit)) 15 16 :Continue
Why are there no input stored in UsersChoice ???
This is the shell output where I have entered "o" as my choice (seen after : ).
Best regardsCode:Overwrite before continue, Continue with old, Abort? o/c/a:o input was exit
Vidar (Z)
Last edited by zainka; 17 Mar 2011 at 06:43. Reason: typo