Batch file Errorlevel issue
batch-file, java
Solution
Your problem is that `cmd` expands environment variables immediately when a statement is parsed, not when it's executed. A statement in this sense includes the whole `if` including the blocks. You need to use delayed expansion, so stick the following at the start of your batch:
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
and then use `!errorlevel!` instead of `%errorlevel%` within the conditional statement (likewise for `exitcode`).
Problem
I am on Windows 7 Enterprise and calling a jar from batch file which returns 0, 1 or 2 depending on condition, I have used "System.exit" for same, following is my batch script ``` @echo off java -jar "test.jar" %* set exitcode=%ERRORLEVEL% echo here is 1st exit code %exitcode% if %exitcode% == 2 ( VERIFY > nul set exitcode=%ERRORLEVEL% echo here is 2nd exit code after VERIFY %exitcode% call test.exe %* echo here is 2nd exit code %ERRORLEVEL% if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 ( cmd /c "exit /b 0" call test1.exe -f echo here is 3rd exit code %errorlevel% ) )exit /b %errorlevel% ``` What I am doing in above code is, calling a jar and depending on errorlevel it returns I am calling another exe and again depending on errorlevel of that exe I am calling third exe. Issue is, exitcode I am getting is first exit code assigned i.e. if test.jar exists with 2 even after successful execution of other exes errorlevel doesn't get changed. And third exe never gets executed. Tried different approaches of calling a cmd exit /b 0 for resetting errorlevel to 0 but its not working.