Change the value of errorlevel for testing purposes

[sacha99]

Hello,
I need to change a line in some old scripts from this

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If Not ERRORLEVEL 0 (

to this

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IF %errorlevel% NEQ 0

Because of this change I need to test the scripts to make sure it doesn't change the output of the scripts. How can I set the errorlevel ? From my search on internet, it seems I cannot change it.

Thank you for your help.

[aGerman]

Easiest way to set the errorlevel to a certain value:

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cmd /c exit 5
echo %errorlevel%

Steffen

[dbenham]

I need to change a line in some old scripts from this

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If Not ERRORLEVEL 0 (

to this

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IF %errorlevel% NEQ 0

In case you don't know, those two statements give entirely different results.

IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 0 only returns TRUE if ERRORLEVEL is less than 0. It returns FALSE if greater than or equal to 0.

IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 returns TRUE if ERRORLEVEL is greater than 0 or less than 0. It only returns FALSE if exactly 0.


Dave Benham