Comments on: Communicating error levels to a calling application from with in VBScript

By: Jlees

Jlees — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:06:06 +0000

Jeff, I didn’t see this comment until just now. Terribly sorry for the delay in my response. I’m not sure what the issue may be, I quickly wrote the following and it works as specified. Have you gotten it figured out already?

[b]Test.bat[/b]
[CODE]Echo off
cscript Yourscript.vbs
If %errorlevel% == 3 goto runexe
Echo “File to old”
goto EndBatch
:runexe
Echo “Error level 3 achieved”
:EndBatch
[/CODE]
[b]YourScript.Bat[/b]
[CODE]wscript.quit(3)[/CODE]

[b]run of test.bat from a command prompt[/b]
>test

>Echo off
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

Error level 3 achieved

By: Jefftanner

Jefftanner — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:41:36 +0000

I have tried the following, and I cannot get [B]%ERRORLEVEL%[/B] to be set any other value but zero(0) after using [B]WScript.Quit(3)[/B] within [B]VBScript[/B] and [B]JScript[/B] files.

Here is my code. What I am doing wrong?

[B]QuitTest.cmd[/B]
[CODE]
@ECHO OFF

ECHO.
cscript QuitTest.vbs //NoLogo
ECHO QuitTest.vbs: %errorlevel%

ECHO.
cscript QuitTest.js //NoLogo
ECHO QuitTest.js: %errorlevel%
[/CODE]

[B]QuitTest.js[/B]
[CODE]
WScript.Echo(“JScript QuitTest”);
WScript.Quit(3);
[/CODE]

[B]QuitTest.vbs[/B]
[CODE]
WScript.Echo(“VBScript QuitTest”)
WScript.Quit(3)
[/CODE]

[B]RUN:[/B]
[CODE]
D:\Workspace>QuitTest.cmd

VBScript QuitTest
QuitTest.vbs: 0

JScript QuitTest
QuitTest.js: 0
[/CODE]

Thanks

Jeff in Seattle