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PiotrMP006

Member

Registered: 02 Apr 2019

Posts: 12

If Else bracket error Help

Why this code does not work?

if exist "D:\Test1" if exist "D:\Test2" (
echo OK
) else (
echo Error
)
pause

This code works but I don't know why this extra brace?

if exist "D:\Test1" if exist "D:\Test2" (
echo OK
)
) else (
echo Error
)
pause

Please Help

Rekrul

Member

Registered: 17 Apr 2016

Posts: 98

Re: If Else bracket error Help

Why this code does not work?

if exist "D:\Test1" if exist "D:\Test2" (
echo OK
) else (
echo Error
)
pause

This code works but I don't know why this extra brace?

if exist "D:\Test1" if exist "D:\Test2" (
echo OK
)
) else (
echo Error
)
pause

Please Help

For what it's worth, your first script works fine for me in Windows XP. The second complains that ") was unexpected at this time."

bluesxman

Member

From: UK

Registered: 29 Dec 2006

Posts: 1,129

Re: If Else bracket error Help

What are you trying to achieve?  Do you want it only print to print "OK" if both of the files exist?

As intimated by Rekrul, I'm not sure your second code example has been pasted in correctly due to the unbalanced "( )".

I'm guessing maybe you are looking for something like:

if exist "D:\Test1" (
  if exist "D:\Test2" (echo OK) else (echo Error)
) else (
  echo Error
)
pause

But chaining conditions like this becomes hard to work with as you wind up having to implement your "else" responses repeatedly.

As such, I would structure it more like this:

set "MISSING="
for %%a in ("D:\Test1" "D:\Test2") do (if not defined MISSING if not exist "%%~a" set "MISSING=true")
if "%MISSING%" EQU "true" (echo:OK) else (echo:Error missing file^(s^))
pause

Last edited by bluesxman (17 Dec 2019 09:16)

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