Question

I guess I don’t understand how the Windows Command Prompt evaluates equality. I have a batch that looks like this:

@echo off
set test=12
if (%test% EQU 12) echo true
pause

This, strangely, does not print true. Could anybody tell me why this is?

Answer 1

Remove parentheses and it will work:

@echo off
set test=12
if %test% EQU 12 echo true
pause

IF doesn’t use parentheses in conditions, just run if /? and you will get information on it’s syntax.