Command: choice, _choice

  CHOICE / _CHOICE suspends processing and waits for the user to press a
  valid key from a given list of choices. Choice gives out an
  ERRORLEVEL (EXITCODE) which can be used for further work.

Syntax:

  CHOICE [ /B ] [ /C[:]choices ] [ /N ] [ /S ] [ /T[:]c,nn ] [ text ]
         [/?]
  _CHOICE [ /B ] [ /C[:]choices ] [ /N ] [ /S ] [ /T[:]c,nn ] [ text ]
          [/?]

Options:

  /B           Sounds an alert (beep) at prompt.
  /C[:]choices Specifies allowable keys in the prompt. When displayed,
               the keys will be separated by commas, will appear in
               brackets ([]), and will be followed by a question mark.
               If you don't specify the /C switch, choice uses YN as the
               default, you may also be 0 - 9 or A - Z. The colon (:) is
               optional.
  /N           Causes choice not to display the prompt. The text before
               the prompt is still displayed, however. If you specify
               the /N switch, the specified keys are still valid.
  /S           Causes choice to be case sensitive. If the /S switch is
               not specified, choice will accept either upper or lower
               case of the keys that the user specifies.
  /T[:]c,nn    Causes choice to pause for a specified number of seconds
               before defaulting to a specified key. The values for the
               /T switch are as follows:
               c   Specifies the character to display after nn seconds.
                   The character must be in the set of choices specified
                   by the /C switch.
               nn  Specifies the number of seconds to pause. Acceptable
                   values are from 0 to 99. If 0 is specified, there will
                   be no pause before defaulting.
  text       The text to display as a prompt (default=none).
  /?         Shows the help.

Comments:

  CHOICE shows the messages according to the file:
    %NLSPATH%\CHOICE.%LANG%,
  where LANG is SET in the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE
  AUTOEXEC.BAT / FDAUTO.BAT and NLSPATH is the path to the national
  language files.
  _CHOICE uses english texts only.
  CHOICE is not a command internal to command.com and needs a
  choice file in order to work.
  CHOICE supports NLS (national language support).
  CHOICE has the following ERRORLEVEL (EXITCODE):
    0    if aborted
    ...  ERRORLEVEL is set to offset of key user presses in choices.
    255  any error

Examples:

  IN A BATCH FILE:
   @ECHO 1 = Do this
   @ECHO 2 = Do that
   @ECHO 3 = Do another thing
   @ECHO 4 = Do nothing
   @choice /B /C:1234 /N /S What do you want to do?
   if errorlevel 4 goto DONOTHING
   if errorlevel 3 goto DOANOTHER
   if errorlevel 2 goto DOTHAT
   if errorlevel 1 goto DOTHIS
   :DOTHIS
   your DOTHIS-commands
   goto EXIT
   :DOTHAT
   your DOTHAT-commands
   goto EXIT
   :DOANOTHER
   your DOANOTHER-commands
   goto EXIT
   :DONOTHING
   your DONOTHING-commands
   goto EXIT
   :EXIT

Command: choice, _choice

Syntax:

Options:

Comments:

Examples:

See also: