CHOICE

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Supported DOS versions:	MS-DOS 6.0+
How easy to use?	Easy
How safe to use?	Very safe
How common?	Fairly common
Internal or external command?	External

Description

Displays a prompt and asks for a single character response

Command Syntax

CHOICE /C[:]keys /N /S /T[:]c,nn text

/C specifies the keys that should be allowed for the response. If it is missed out, the keys Y/N will be used.

/N tells CHOICE to leave off the prompt. The prompt is a list of the allowed keys in square brackets followed by a question mark, eg [YN]?

/S tells CHOICE that the input will be case sensitive, that is Y will not be the same as y.

/T waits for nn seconds and then chooses key n

text must be surrounded by quote marks(" ") if it includes a / character.

Comments

When CHOICE gets a key press, it returns an ERRORLEVEL corresponding to each key. For example, with the default Y/N option Y returns error level 1 and N returns error level 2. See ERRORLEVEL for more details on how to process this.

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