need help, should be simple... something like tokens

[Redd4]

i need to to proceed to step two, even if it finds no tokens during step 1

but i dont know how to do that. is there a continue command?

[Lemonilla]

You may want to put an exit before ':builderror' as of now it will display that even without an error.

Another thing, if it errors on the 2nd 'rd' the first time you run, it will always error, as the first 'rd's target is gone. I don't know if you wanted to do that or not.

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for /f "tokens=2,3" %%a in (' SYSTEMINFO ^|find /i "broadcom" ') do set "var=%%b"
::If var is empty then there were no tokens found
if "%var%"=="" goto builderror
and I do believe you need an opening '(' after "do" if you plan on including other stuff in your for loop.

[foxidrive]

I'm not sure of your question but check the additions in blue

for /f "tokens=2,3" %%a in (' SYSTEMINFO ^|find /i "broadcom" ') do set "var=%%b"

IF not defined var (
  goto builderror
)

echo I like cats and %var%



RD /S /q  C:\CA\repositorydriver\directoryA

IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (
  goto builderror
)

RD /S /q  C:\CA\repositorydriver\directoryB

IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (
  goto builderror
)

goto :EXIT

:builderror
echo *** An error has occured executing clearRegistry.bat 
pause

:exit

[Lemonilla]

Was finally able to run some tests, scratch what I said about if the first target is not there.

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C:\Users\Lemonilla>rd AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The system cannot find the file specified.

C:\Users\Lemonilla>echo %errorlevel%
0

I did not know about 'if defined', very useful. Thanks foxidrive!

[Redd4]

thanks guys, really though! still plugging away at getting it right, was nice to log in and see more refinements

[Redd4]

Lemonilla your version worked also, -  if "%var%"=="" goto builderror -
was better than my "if errorlevel" - which didnt work in that case

[Squashman]

hey all. Thanks for explaining that Foxidrive.  It seems this site is one of the only resources for learning msdos on the net.

you are not learning msdos. msdos is an operating system. you are learning batch scripting. plenty of places to get help for batch scripting.

rob vanderwoude has a great website as well as eric phelps.
stack overflow is a great forum as is dostips.com, techguy and computer hope.

[Redd4]

cheers Squashman, good to know, going forward, seems im not finished learning by a longshot.