Exiting program gracefully if file not found.

[Tigers!]

Gudday all
I had asked a similar question in this thread http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php?topic=95717.0 but I want to modify it slightly.
Currently the code below

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set file_path=D:\Archives\E20_136_JP\ArchiveCreator\Errors\

rem echo %file_path%

rem *** Extract all .SPL files ***
if exist "!file_path!*.spl" (
dir !file_path!*.spl /b > SPLfiles.txt
)

more code here
gives the messages that SPLfiles.txt not found if there are no *.spl files present.

What I would like is for the code to exit gracefully if no *.spl files found.
I suppose I could modfiy

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if exist "!file_path!*.spl" (
dir !file_path!*.spl /b > SPLfiles.txt
)
to be

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if not exist "!file_path!*.spl" (
  ** what would go in here to have the code finish? **
) else (
dir !file_path!*.spl /b > SPLfiles.txt

........
)

How would I get the code to end where the ** what would go in here to have the code finish? ** is? What would go in here?


Merry Christmas from Australia

[Dusty]

Have a look at EXIT or EXIT/B

Or you could display a message for example:

echo No .SPL files found, job terminated..
Exit (or Exit/b)

Merry Xmas from over the ditch.

[Salmon Trout]

You seem familiar with the if ... else structure, which makes me wonder why you don't do something like this

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if exist "!file_path!*.spl" (
    echo Searching for spl files...
    dir !file_path!*.spl /b > SPLfiles.txt
) else (
    echo.
    echo No spl files found
    echo.
    echo Press any key to finish . . .
    echo.
    pause>nul
    exit
)
REM Note: you will only get to here if at least 1 spl file was found

I have chose to redirect the pause output message "Press any key to continue . . ." to nul and substitute another, because I sometimes feel the word "continue" is inappropriate when you are in fact not continuing but finishing.

[Tigers!]

Thanks chaps.   
I'll use it at work after Christmas.