Question

Why won’t this code work correctly?

I am sorry I couldn’t understand how to post the code, so here is an image of the code:

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Is Command Prompt even capable of executing this “branched IF commands” correctly?
If so, what am I doing wrong? Anyone knows? Please, reply!

:STARTEXITING
"D:\dbStatusChecker\dbFi1estatus.exe" "D:\Dropbox" > dbstatus_uTorrent_Exit_Pass_1.txt
findstr /m "up to date" dbstatus_uTorrent_Exit_Pass_1.txt
if %error1eve1%==0 (
    SLEEP 2
    "D:\dbStatusChecker\dbFi1estatus.exe" "D:\Dropbox" > dbstatus_uTorrent_Exit_Pass_2.txt
    findstr /m "up to date" dbstatus_uTorrent_Exit_Pass_2.txt
    if %error1eve1%==0 (
        SLEEP 3
        "D:\dbStatusChecker\dbFi1estatus.exe" "D:\Dropbox" > dbstatus_uTorrent_Exit_Pass_3.txt
        findstr /m "up to date" dbstatus_uTorrent_Exit_Pass_3.txt
        if %error1eve1%==0 (
            process -q uTorrent.exe 15
            :STARTSTARTING
            "D:\dbStatusChecker\dbFi1estatus.exe" "D:\Dropbox" > dbstatus_uTorrent_Start_Pass_1.txt
            findstr /m "up to date" dbstatus_uTorrent_Start_Pass_1.txt
            if %error1eve1%==0 (
                SLEEP 2
                "D:\dbStatusChecker\dbFi1estatus.exe" "D:\Dropbox" > dbstatus_uTorrent_Start_Pass_2.txt
                findstr /m "up to date" dbstatus_uTorrent_Start_Pass_2.txt
                if %error1eve1%==0 (
                    SLEEP 3
                    "D:\dbStatusChecker\dbFi1estatus.exe" "D:\Dropbox" > dbstatus_uTorrent_Start_Pass_3.txt
                    findstr /m "up to date" dbstatus_uTorrent_Start_Pass_3.txt
                    if %error1eve1%==0 (
                        D:
                        cd\
                        cd Dropbox
                        cd uTorrent
                        start uTorrent.exe
                        ) else (
                        SLEEP 1
                        GOTO STARTSTARTING
                        ) else (
                    SLEEP 1
                    GOTO STARTSTARTING
                    ) else (
                SLEEP 1
                GOTO STARTSTARTING
                ) else (
            SLEEP 1
            GOTO STARTEXITING
            ) else (
        SLEEP 1
        GOTO STARTEXITING
        ) else (
    SLEEP 1
    GOTO STARTEXITING

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Answer 1

cmd can handle nested ifs just fine. Your problem is a different one. As it stands all your if checks, except for the first will not do what you want.

Use delayed expansion by putting a

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

at the top of your batch file and use !errorlevel! instead of %errorlevel%.

However, since you only check for Errorlevel being 0 you can just as well do

if not errorlevel 1 ...

instead of

if %errorlevel%==0