Vista - $error weird behaviour in RC2 ?

Hello,
while "poking around" with RC2, I found a strange behaviour (bug ?)
with $error, but it might be somewhere else.

Steps to reproduce (at least on my machine ;-)):

- Launch PS
- $error
(obviously it's empty)
- run a get-help command such as
"help gps" or "get-help get-process -full"
- $error

It prints many rows of:
"Cannot convert value "named" to type "System.Int32". Error: "Input
string was not in a correct format."
At line:1 char:64"

What's wrong ? Can anyone confirm the same behaviour ?

Thanks

Ciao!
Claudio

I can confirm what you are seeing on my system.
It seems that all these errors come from the section MamlParameterControl in
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\help.format.ps1xml.

The error seems to be that $_.position in the script contains the string
"named" instead of a valid integer.

+ (($_.position -ne $()) -and ($_.position -ne "") -and ([int]$_.p <<<<
osition -ne $()))

This would give the same error message:

PS> [int]"named"
Cannot convert value "named" to type "System.Int32".

I think it's a bug and not a feature.

--
greetings
dreeschkind

"ClaudioG64" wrote:

> Hello,
> while "poking around" with RC2, I found a strange behaviour (bug ?)
> with $error, but it might be somewhere else.
>
> Steps to reproduce (at least on my machine ;-)):
>
> - Launch PS
> - $error
> (obviously it's empty)
> - run a get-help command such as
> "help gps" or "get-help get-process -full"
> - $error
>
> It prints many rows of:
> "Cannot convert value "named" to type "System.Int32". Error: "Input
> string was not in a correct format."
> At line:1 char:64"
>
> What's wrong ? Can anyone confirm the same behaviour ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ciao!
> Claudio
>
>

dreeschkind ha scritto:


>
> I think it's a bug and not a feature.
>

:-D
Just in case ... I filed a "bug" for this feature ;-)

Claudio

thats so interest dreeschkind
for i want replicating that same line from the XML in my code to render
maml help to html and say that the [int] cast gave me that named error,
so i had to adapt mine, i was wondering why theirs didn't bomb, but
they must have a trap, but are logging the error, but not surfacing
errors that happenin the formatting xml.