Vista - Powershell bug?

It seems like a bug to me.
> PS> 1..50001 | Out-Null # It's just ok
> PS> 1..50002 | Out-Null # hmm...
> Bad range expression; 50001 is larger than the maximum size of a range
> (=50000 elements).
> At line:1 char:4
> + 1..5 <<<< 0002| Out-Null
Is this a bug?

On second line your asking for 50001 elements, but the max size is 50000 elements. So looks right to me. I assume the 50000 element range is just an arbitrary max to prevent people from maxing mem too easy.

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William Stacey [C# MVP]


"Jade Lee" <redjadeDOTleeATgmailDOTcom> wrote in message news:%23vTovsaiHHA.4520@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
It seems like a bug to me.

PS> 1..50001 | Out-Null # It's just ok
PS> 1..50002 | Out-Null # hmm...
Bad range expression; 50001 is larger than the maximum size of a range (=50000 elements).
At line:1 char:4
+ 1..5 <<<< 0002| Out-Null
Is this a bug?

> On second line your asking for 50001 elements, but the max size is 50000 elements. So looks right to me. I assume the 50000 element range is just an arbitrary max to prevent people from maxing mem too easy.

I wonder why these values would be cached in the first place? Sounds
like a design bug. At least the error message is good.

An ugly way to get around this bug, though you probably already knew
this and it wasn't your point...

$(for ($i = 0; $i -lt 50002; $i++) { $i } ) | out-null

Mike

the 50,000 is a limit set by MS.. if it were 32768, 65536, 4gb or
something i might understand, but it seems a little contrived to me.
however maybe they were scared that people would do things that would
just put too many items into the pipelien by mistake?, anyhow i can't
see any good reason for it

however the fact that

1..50001 doesn't error out is interesting, this looks like a typical
"one bug". thought at least its benign.

PoSH> (0..5000).count
5001

<klumsy@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
news:1177803048.479053.209440@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> the 50,000 is a limit set by MS.. if it were 32768, 65536, 4gb or
> something i might understand, but it seems a little contrived to me.
> however maybe they were scared that people would do things that would
> just put too many items into the pipelien by mistake?, anyhow i can't
> see any good reason for it
>
> however the fact that
>
> 1..50001 doesn't error out is interesting, this looks like a typical
> "one bug". thought at least its benign.
>

Jade Lee ¾´ ±Û:
> It seems like a bug to me.
>> PS> 1..50001 | Out-Null # It's just ok
>> PS> 1..50002 | Out-Null # hmm...
>> Bad range expression; 50001 is larger than the maximum size of a
>> range (=50000 elements).
>> At line:1 char:4
>> + 1..5 <<<< 0002| Out-Null
> Is this a bug?
Thanks ^^*

range : 1 ~ 50000
The sum of elements : 50001
Is it a right?

The statements "(=50000 elements)" confused me just a little.

I think it's a bit of stretch to call this a feature.
Ranges are constrained to 50,000.
"Jade Lee" <redjadeDOTleeATgmailDOTcom> wrote in message news:eqXl6NniHHA.4496@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Jade Lee ¾´ ±Û:
It seems like a bug to me.

PS> 1..50001 | Out-Null # It's just ok
PS> 1..50002 | Out-Null # hmm...
Bad range expression; 50001 is larger than the maximum size of a range (=50000 elements).
At line:1 char:4
+ 1..5 <<<< 0002| Out-Null
Is this a bug?

Thanks ^^*

range : 1 ~ 50000
The sum of elements : 50001
Is it a right?

The statements "(=50000 elements)" confused me just a little.

yep but we did it based on one

(1..5001).count
5000

also it doesn't matter one or o based, it errors our when its greater
than 50001 rather tha 50,000

i.e

5..50005

Not sure you want to allow 1..[int]::maxvalue either as people would be crashing themselfs. So you need to pick some max. As shown in the thread, there are othe ways around it if you really need that many. You could also create your own range function and put it in your profile.

--
William Stacey [C# MVP]
PCR concurrency library: www.codeplex.com/pcr
PSH Scripts Project www.codeplex.com/psobject


"Doug" <doug.sluis@gmail.com> wrote in message news:u4qdnfAsG6XSJqvbnZ2dnUVZ_jOdnZ2d@comcast.com...
I think it's a bit of stretch to call this a feature.
Ranges are constrained to 50,000.
"Jade Lee" <redjadeDOTleeATgmailDOTcom> wrote in message news:eqXl6NniHHA.4496@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Jade Lee ¾´ ±Û:
It seems like a bug to me.

PS> 1..50001 | Out-Null # It's just ok
PS> 1..50002 | Out-Null # hmm...
Bad range expression; 50001 is larger than the maximum size of a range (=50000 elements).
At line:1 char:4
+ 1..5 <<<< 0002| Out-Null
Is this a bug?

Thanks ^^*

range : 1 ~ 50000
The sum of elements : 50001
Is it a right?

The statements "(=50000 elements)" confused me just a little.