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Posted: **21 Aug 2012 16:45**

Hello all,
I'm having a bit of trouble getting my menu setup to work. When I select a choice, it just gives me the "Error. Please select a valid choice" text that I setup.

Can someone please tell me what's going wrong?

Thanks!

Here is a block of code that has the problem.

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:mainMenu
cls
echo ---Backup Manager----------
echo Version %VERSION%
echo.
echo.
echo Menu
echo ------
echo 1 View Current Backups
echo 2 Add a Backup
echo 3 Delete a Backup
echo 4 Legal
echo 5 Changelog
echo 6 Reinstall
echo Exit
echo.
set /p '%choice%'=(Please select an option)
if '%choice%'=='1' goto backupList
if '%choice%'=='2' goto backupAdd
if '%choice%'=='3' goto backupDelete
if '%choice%'=='4' goto legal
if '%choice%'=='5' goto changelog
if '%choice%'=='6' goto setup
echo Error, please select a valid choice.
pause>nul
goto mainMenu

Posted: **21 Aug 2012 16:59**

replace all single qoute with double one

From

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if '%choice%'=='1' goto backupList

To

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if "%choice%"=="1" goto backupList

and this line

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set /p '%choice%'=(Please select an option)

to

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set /p "choice=(Please select an option)"

In Dos use double qoutes " " not ' '

Posted: **21 Aug 2012 23:18**

leftybeaver128 wrote:
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set /p '%choice%'=(Please select an option)

Remove the ' and % characters. You need to use a simple variable name here.

The double quotes are useful too:

set /p "choice=(Please select an option): "

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