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The point is that batch simply continues through instructions, line by line until it reaches a
goto
,
exit
or end-of-file. It has no concept of
sections
to control flow.
Hence, entering
de
would jump to
:languagede
then simply continue executing instructions until the file ends, showing
de
then
en
then
not found
.
–
–
–
Recommendation. Do not use user-added REM statements to block batch steps. Use conditional GOTO instead.
That way you can predefine and test the steps and options. The users also get much simpler changes and better confidence.
@Echo on
rem Using flags to control command execution
SET ExecuteSection1=0
SET ExecuteSection2=1
@echo off
IF %ExecuteSection1%==0 GOTO EndSection1
ECHO Section 1 Here
:EndSection1
IF %ExecuteSection2%==0 GOTO EndSection2
ECHO Section 2 Here
:EndSection2
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