Advanced Batch

Step 8 GOTO Command

The GOTO Command. It does exactly what it says; it GOes TO a label in the batch file script.

To use this command, you must first have a label in place. Labels look like this:

:Label1

It's simply a colon before a non-spaced series of letters and/or numbers.

The GOTO command is structured like this:

GOTO Label1

It's That Easy!
Come to think of it, I'm not really sure why I didn't put this in the Slightly Advanced Batch.

In any case, this command can be used to repeat a batch file by simply GOTO a label that executes the GOTO command again.

@ECHO OFF:RepeatMeECHO This will be repeated unless you hit "CTRL-C"GOTO RepeatMe

The batch file speaks the truth, by the way. CTRL-C is the universal Pause and Prompt for Termination. CTRL-S is simply Pause. But Closing the window works just as well.

The GOTO can skip, or reorder your code as well.

GOTO TurnEOffGOTO MultipleGotoECHO This ECHO is going to be skipped.:MultipleGotoGOTO 3:ENDPAUSEEXIT:1ECHO The EndGOTO END:3ECHO This will be displayed firstGOTO 2:TurnEOff@ECHO OFFGOTO MultipleGoto:2ECHO This is second, even though it's last in the code.GOTO 1

The above code was structured confusingly on purpose to emphasize the GOTO's ability to jump around in the code.

Comments

[teh_pwnage]

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