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Oh dear! - 3/27/2006 11:15:11 PM

L12

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Okay, so I've just downloaded Monad Beta version 3.1 and thought I'd give this new fangled thing a go. It took me enough time to actually un-restrict my files let alone figure out what's going on. I've read a few of the links here and it doesn't look too bad, but I'm having some problems understanding the way things work. I tried creating a basic script, just using a couple of strings, an if else statement and a while loop:

Obviously, my syntax is all wrong, because I get the error:

Incomplete string token
At D:\Profiles\Gornalln\Desktop\FirstMonad.msh:11 char:22
+ elseif ($strName = "M <<<< ark") {

Should I be using double quotes to compare literal values or am I way off the mark (like I suspect

)?
Also, a couple of quick questions:

1. Is this language case sensitive? I'd simply test it if I could get anything working

2. Is there any way to run these scripts outside of the Windows Command Shell? I'm not sure how I'd actually run one of these scripts on a remote computer (assuming it has Monad installed on it obviously).

Thanks for any replies, in the meantime I'm going to read up on all these links and see if they have a newbie newbie guide :)

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RE: Oh dear! - 3/28/2006 2:41:59 AM

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This should work for you:

1. Is this language case sensitive? I'd simply test it if I could get anything working

No.
2. Is there any way to run these scripts outside of the Windows Command Shell? I'm not sure how I'd actually run one of these scripts on a remote computer (assuming it has Monad installed on it obviously).
Not sure, but it is certainly something that is worth looking in to.

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RE: Oh dear! - 3/28/2006 6:52:41 PM

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Great, thanks :)

I also found this link to a msdn blog which may prove useful:

http://blogs.msdn.com/monad/archive/2006/02.aspx

Had a nice tip in there for loading & saving txt from/into txt files:

To write sometext to to a text file called Test:

${c:\Test.txt} = "SomeText"

To then read that text:

write-host ${c:\Test.txt}

How simple is that? I think it's going to take some effort to learn (especially the scopes and different modes), but I'm really impressed so far with what I've seen of Monad.

Strange, it seems when you use write-host, it just prints the whole of the contents of the text file to one line, whereas if you just had ${c:\Test.txt} then it will print each line of Test.txt as it is in the document. Time to RTFM again I think :P

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RE: Oh dear! - 3/29/2006 1:13:33 AM

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Not starnge at all. Here is how the line breaks down:

write-host   ${c:\Test.txt}
|-----------| |----------------|
      |                      |
      |                      |--------------------- The object given is this text file
      |
      |------------------ Use the .ToString method of the specified object to write it to STDOUT

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