Vista - Batch: if statement

I cannot find a BATCH scripting groups, was post in other group.

Hoping I will get quick respond here because this group is targeting
developers.



When I execute this batch script with two prompts set to N.
What am I doing wrong that it's entering the second "if statement"?

Result:
Enter (Y/N) N
Enter2 (Y/N) N
Msg 1
C_PATH exist
Should not be here!

@SET OVERWRITE=N
@SET /P OVERWRITE="Enter (Y/N) "
@SET C_PATH=C:\Windows

:: BEGIN
@IF "%OVERWRITE%" == "Y" (
@ECHO Hey %USERNAME%
@ECHO Got IN overwrite

@IF EXIST %C_PATH% (
@ECHO %C_PATH% exist
)

@IF "A" == "A" (
@ECHO Hello!!
)

@ECHO Should not display this message!
)

@SET COMPILE=N
@SET C_OVERWRITE=N
@SET /P COMPILE="Enter2 (Y/N) "

@IF "%COMPILE%" == "Y" (
@ECHO Hey2 %USERNAME%

:: Check if directory is already exist
@IF EXIST %C_PATH% (
@ECHO %C_PATH% exist
@SET /P C_OVERWRITE="Overwrite %C_PATH% [Y/N] "
)

:: Ask for overwrite
@IF "%C_OVERWRITE%" == "Y" (
@ECHO C overwrite
)

@ECHO Msg 1
@IF EXIST %C_PATH% (
@ECHO C_PATH exist
)
@ECHO Should not be here!
)

"Slickuser" <slick.users@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:36ec619e-29fd-4726-a702-a3c13605a814@newsgroupYour batch file needs some improvements:
- Having an @ at the start of each line is distracting. Use a single "@echo
off" at the beginning instead.
- Surrounding your == signs with spaces can cause trouble. Get rid of them!
- Setting variables inside a multi-line statement (i.e. a statement that
starts with a bracket and extends over several lines) does not work the way
you use it, because multi-line statements are scanned and interpreted just
once and *as a single line*. To make it work, you must force a rescan, using
the syntax below and surrounding rescanned variables with exclamation marks
instead of percentage signs.
- There is an extremely active batch file newsgroup: alt.msdos.batch.nt.

@echo off
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion

SET OVERWRITE=N
SET /P OVERWRITE="Enter (Y/N) "
SET C_PATH=C:\Windows

:: BEGIN
IF "%OVERWRITE%"=="Y" (
ECHO Hey %USERNAME%
ECHO Got IN overwrite

IF EXIST %C_PATH% ECHO %C_PATH% exist
IF "A"=="A" ECHO Hello!!
ECHO Should not display this message!
)

SET COMPILE=N
SET C_OVERWRITE=N
SET /P COMPILE="Enter2 (Y/N) "

IF "%COMPILE%"=="Y" (
ECHO Hey2 %USERNAME%

:: Check if directory is already exist
IF EXIST %C_PATH% (
ECHO %C_PATH% exist
SET /P C_OVERWRITE="Overwrite %C_PATH% [Y/N] "
)

:: Ask for overwrite
IF "%C_OVERWRITE%" == "Y" ECHO C overwrite
ECHO Msg 1
IF EXIST !C_PATH! ECHO C_PATH exist
ECHO Should not be here!
)

"Pegasus [MVP]" <news@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:utNuFsjSKHA.1236@newsgroupOr, better still, use the newer relational operators:

EQU - equal
NEQ - not equal
LSS - less than
LEQ - less than or equal
GTR - greater than
GEQ - greater than or equal

These need to be separated from the operands, which makes things easier to
read.
See also microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin.

/Al