Funny Windows 11 Non-Glitch

[GeoffVass]

Just found one of my scripts broke on Windows 11.
I had something like this:

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SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
<do some stuff>
if defined Result (echo Success) else (echo Failure!!)
EndLocal

This has always worked, but on Windows 11 it glitches. You can probably guess the

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!!

in the echo command is the culprit.

[Squashman]

Not explicitly understanding what you think the glitch is? There has always been an issue with displaying exclamations when delayed expansion is enabled.

[GeoffVass]

The glitch is that I should never have used exclamation marks cosmetically. But it used to work, and now doesn't. So either Microsoft has fixed a bug in Windows 11, or introduced one. Anyway I've just removed the exclamation marks. My point is that it's weird to find some changed behavior in CMD.EXE so quickly.

[aGerman]

You are showing us a piece of code but not what you get on Win 11 in comparison to what you got on Win 10 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@echo off

SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set "Result="
if defined Result (echo Success) else (echo Failure!!)

set "Result=X"
if defined Result (echo Success) else (echo Failure!!)
EndLocal

pause

Output on Win10:

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Failure
Success
Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .

Of course it's absolutely expected that the exclamation points are removed because they are treated as an empty/undefined variable if delayed expansion is enabled.
So if you take this example and run it on Win 11, what's the difference?

Steffen

[aGerman]

Alright, let me answer this question myself. Installed Win 11, ran the script, and the output is

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Failure
Success
Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .

The difference is that it shows up in a console window with round corners

Steffen

[Squashman]

The difference is that it shows up in a console window with round corners

I draw the line on round corners. Never upgrading to Windows 11!!

[atfon]

The difference is that it shows up in a console window with round corners

I draw the line on round corners. Never upgrading to Windows 11!!

Maybe write a script that converts round corners to square?

[aGerman]

I'm far too pragmatic to get upset about those details. As long as everything works I'm still ok if they make concave corners having flourish. After a few days I don't even notice it anymore