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by lmstearn » 27 Aug 2024 06:31
Hi, in the
goto docs bug section there is:
GOTO breaks the & and && redirection operators.
Does this apply to either the line, sub or entire script?
Thanks.
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by aGerman » 27 Aug 2024 09:16
SS64 is for sure not the official docs. So you may ask the author of the site to disambiguate their statement.
IMO it refers to & and && following a GOTO command. However, I would consider this to be expected behavior rather than a bug.
Steffen
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by lmstearn » 27 Aug 2024 10:07
Thanks for the HU, yes, if not the official, my personal "official" goto for years now.
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by aGerman » 27 Aug 2024 11:50
Yeah, to be clear - SS64 is a pretty good reference. The official MS docs don't tell you about such effects of GOTO. However, I still think that "bug" is the wrong wording here. Just an example of how I understand it:
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@echo off
goto label&echo FOO
:label
echo BAR
pause
FOO is never printed as the GOTO makes the program jump to :label earlier. That's exactly how I'd expect it to work.
Steffen