DOS ERRORLEVEL or equivalent

[JimD]

I can't find anything in the documentation that shows how to capture the result of an external process. I'm hoping that I can have an NPP exec script that can take different actions depending on the return code from a cmd /c process.

Something like this:

cmd /c gawk -f script.awk
if 0 == $(SYS.ERRORLEVEL) goto itWorked
echo OOPS!
goto earlyExit
:itWorked
...
:earlyExit

Of course, ERRORLEVEL isn't an environment variable (it's an internal variable), so this doesn't work.

[DV]

Did you try to type "help" in NppExec's Console?

:) Sorry, could not resist to ask the most obvious question.

Seems you are talking about $(EXITCODE) here. This variable has even been used in examples in 3.8.4 of NppExec Manual.

[JimD]

Thanks! I knew you must have included this somehow...

Yes, I checked all the documentation--I simply didn't catch EXITCODE. A bad case of reader error!

I write a lot of documentation for the things I work on so I won't have to answer a lot of questions, but, like you seem to have experienced, I find many people don't read them! :-(

Thanks for creating and maintaining such a great plug-in!