Docs: GOTO Bug Clarification

[lmstearn]

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.

[aGerman]

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

[lmstearn]

Thanks for the HU, yes, if not the official, my personal "official" goto for years now.

[aGerman]

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

[GeoffVass]

Agreed, goto is an immediate change of program flow. If you wanted to recast that script to do something and then come back and do something else, use functions:

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@echo off
call :label&echo FOO

goto End

:label
echo BAR
goto :EOF

:End
pause