Question

I have written a script on Windows 7 which keeps giving me an error of “( was unexpected at this time.” for the following code

if %vardns%=="NODNS" (
  netsh interface ipv4 set address name="%__ethAdapter.42%" source=static addr=%varip_old% mask=%varsubnet_old% gateway=%vargateway_old% gwmetric=1
) else (
  netsh interface ipv4 set address name="%__ethAdapter.42%" source=dhcp
)

I am not sure where the issue lies and have read many other posts. Any help would be kindly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You’re getting this error because vardns is probably empty, and the interpreter unrolls this line to:

if =="NODNS" (

Which is illegal syntax.

What you’ve been advised to do is correct — add quotation marks around %vardns%, like this:

if "%vardns%"=="NODNS" (

and it should work.