Let’s wrap up our look at CHOICE.EXE and how to use it in batch files. I’ve shown you some basic examples but CHOICE has a few “advanced” features you might want to incorporate into your batch file.<\/p>\n
As I’ve explained before, menu choices by default are case-insensitive. However, you can enforce a case-sensitive choice with the \/CS switch:<\/p>\n
@echo off if errorlevel 2 GOTO :Upper :Upper :Lower :EOF<\/font> <\/p>\n The user’s choices are “a” or “A”. Again, the script jumps to the appropriate section depending on what was selected. <\/p>\n There may be times in your batch file where you want to provide a menu choice, but don’t want to wait indefinitely. For those situations you will use a combination of \/T to specify a timeout value in seconds between 0 and 9999, and \/D to indicate the default value. The \/D value must be one of the options listed with \/C. <\/p>\n @echo off if errorlevel 2 GOTO :NO :NO :YES :EOF<\/font><\/p>\n This prompt will wait for 5 seconds for the user to make a choice. If they don’t respond by then, the script will force the default choice of Y which will evaulated just as if the user had typed Y at the choice prompt. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let’s wrap up our look at CHOICE.EXE and how to use it in batch files. I’ve shown you some basic examples but CHOICE has a few “advanced” features you might want to incorporate into your batch file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batchcmd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
echo a = Lower Case choice
echo A = Upper case choice
Choice \/c “aA” \/CS \/M “Make a choice” <\/font><\/p>\n
if errorlevel 1 GOTO :Lower
GOTO :EOF <\/font><\/p>\n
echo Upper Case choice
GOTO :EOF <\/font><\/p>\n
echo Lower Case choice
GOTO :EOF <\/font><\/p>\n
Choice \/T 5 \/D Y \/M “Do you want to continue?” <\/font><\/p>\n
if errorlevel 1 GOTO :YES
GOTO :EOF <\/font><\/p>\n
echo Not continuing
GOTO :EOF <\/font><\/p>\n
echo Continuing
GOTO :EOF <\/font><\/p>\n
By now you should have enough information and samples on how to incorporate CHOICE into your batch files. If you ever forget the options, simpy run CHOICE \/? at a command prompt for syntax help. <\/p>\n