CHOICE problems...

[helper]

For the life of me, I can't figure out the CHOICE command. Please help me! I am running Windows 98.

[Geek-9pm]

Here is the help page:
http://www.computerhope.com/choicehl.htm
This command waits for you to type something and type continues.
It can wait awhile and then go on anyhow if you are busy. Otherwise, the choice you made can alter something the batch file will do. 
Why not give an example of what you think the choice command will do?

[Dusty]

Here's some guidance on Choice.  It would really really help if you posted your code or indicated what problems you have.

[helper]

Thanks for the help. The problem was i was putting: ...IF ERRORLEVEL = 1 THEN... All is fixed now but... Is it possible to read and write from and to a file in batch?

[DaveLembke]

It is possible depending on the file type. If raw ascii definately! If some other format that generally cant be viewed with dos editor or notepad in clear text form, batch will likely not be able to read the information and edit the information in an array configuration for example to shuffed data around or populate data in the file and save it properly.

Knowing the conditional format of the data is helpful as well... is it comma delimited or tab delimited etc. Is the data your editing always popupated x-many characters down or after a unique identifier in the file such as TOTAL, in which a value can be populated after Total etc.

[helper]

I just want to do this: read a character from a file, convert the character depending on what the character is, and then save it to a file. And then the same thing for the second, third, fourth, ect, character. So what is the command to read and write from and to a file?

[Geek-9pm]

No the CHOICE command.  You would use some form of the FOR command with one of the functions used in batch files. Look in the DOS tutorial on this site.