ERRORLEVEL inside IF

Question

Just stumbled into a weird thing with %ERRORLEVEL% and wanted to see if anyone knows why and if there\'s a way to fix it. Essentially, it seems as if commands e

Answer 1

Try using setlocal enabledelayedexpansion at the start of your batch file, and !ERRORLEVEL! inside your IF. This seems to work for me:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
dir nul
echo %ERRORLEVEL%
if .1.==.1. (
  urklbkrlksdj - not a command
  echo %ERRORLEVEL%
  echo !ERRORLEVEL!
)