Serge van den Oever [Macaw]

I'm sure you're going to love this sample output:

PS C:\> function f([string]$a, [string]$b)

>> {

>>   Write-Host "a:", $a, " b:", $b

>> }

>>

PS C:\> f("A", "B")

a: A B  b:

PS C:\> f "A", "B"

a: A B  b:

PS C:\> f "A" "B"

a: A  b: B

PS C:\> f("A", "B") "C"

a: A B  b: C

PS C:\>

Your behavior isn't just from the parentheses, but due to the commas.

PowerShell is a bit funky.. When you create a function and you want to supply parameters, the following format applies:

function fname {

  param([string]$a, [int]$b) # the two parameters.

  write-host ("a = " + $a)

  write-host ("b = " + $b)

}

Thanks for the clarifation

man I fought with this for a day...

I want to pass args as in c++

foo(2,20)

but in Pshell it's

foo "2" "20"

provided  that foo is written to accept params:

funtion foo {

param([int]=$arg1,[int]=$arg2)

write-host "$arg1, $arg2"

}

SO, now I have it cleared up, but still, my c++ side wants to call this like foo(2,20).

Anyway, thanks again!

Great, just what I was looking for. Thanks.

yeah me too,i was going nuts over this !

Thx,

I was fighting with PShell passing arguments, had a tuff time for half a day.

i was going mad what is wrong with it.

Anyways thanks a lot :)

hello to all,

i don't understand all

pls i need en fonction

(or parameter) like:

function var {var1,var2,var3, ....

  if ([int64]var -lt 0)

   $var.style.color="#E30000";}

thnx for any help

AA

That sucked!  It took me 4 hours of my life to figure this out....and I cannot get them back :(

Thats because powershell; nice as it is; is also pointlessly and randomly obscurely different and bizarre just for the sake of it.

Its like the people who designed it had been locked away by Microsoft for forty years in a commune somewhere; isolated from the whole history of the computing universe; and then were told to create powershell untainted from anything that ever existed before.

I would be probably still wondering why the parameter type inside and outside the function is different