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learntolive
learntolive

Reputation: 1

Invoking counter in batch

I m just trying to invoke a simple counter.To implement that I wrote the below script but the script is only giving me output as "Checking".

@echo off
echo checking
goto :check
:check
for /L %%a IN (1,1,4) do (
  echo %%a
  if %%a == 4 (
    echo a is 4 now
    echo congo
    goto:eof
  ) else (
    goto :check
  )

Upvotes: 0

Views: 24

Answers (1)

Stephan
Stephan

Reputation: 56155

a few Problems here:

1) you are missing a closing parantheses (very good visible when Code is properly intended)

2) any goto breaks your block (a block is everything between (and )

3) jumping ahead of your for Loop will start it again, resulting in a endless Loop

4) no Need to goto :eof, as for will end of it's own when the Counter reaches 4

5) no need to goto <a label at the very next line>

This results in the following Code:

@echo off
echo checking
for /L %%a IN (1,1,4) do (
  echo %%a
  if %%a == 4 (
    echo a is 4 now 
    echo congo 
  )
)

Upvotes: 1

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