When I right click Run code, and have run in terminal on in my user settings I get these errors.

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At line:1 char:63 + ... "c:\Users\Josh\Documents\Programming\Learning to Program\" && g++ Exe ... + ~~ The token '&&' is not a valid statement separator in this version. At line:1 char:99 + ... \Learning to Program\" && g++ Exercise36.cpp -o Exercise36 && "c:\Use ... + ~~ The token '&&' is not a valid statement separator in this version. At line:1 char:102 + ... ercise36 && "c:\Users\Josh\Documents\Programming\Learning to Program\ ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Expressions are only allowed as the first element of a pipeline. At line:1 char:160 + ... "c:\Users\Josh\Documents\Programming\Learning to Program\"Exercise36 + ~~~~~~~~~~ Unexpected token 'Exercise36' in expression or statement. + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidEndOfLine

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At line:1 char:63 + ... "c:\Users\Josh\Documents\Programming\Learning to Program\" && g++ Exe ... + ~~ The token '&&' is not a valid statement separator in this version. At line:1 char:99 + ... \Learning to Program\" && g++ Exercise36.cpp -o Exercise36 && "c:\Use ... + ~~ The token '&&' is not a valid statement separator in this version. At line:1 char:102 + ... ercise36 && "c:\Users\Josh\Documents\Programming\Learning to Program\ ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Expressions are only allowed as the first element of a pipeline. At line:1 char:160 + ... "c:\Users\Josh\Documents\Programming\Learning to Program\"Exercise36 + ~~~~~~~~~~ Unexpected token 'Exercise36' in expression or statement. + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidEndOfLine

I have been compiling fine up until today, and I did some googling and started typing my own commands into the terminal instead of just running code.

I started replacing the && with -and and get a different problem. This is what the command looks like now.

This is the error I get.

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Set-Location : Parameter cannot be processed because the parameter name 'o' is ambiguous. Possible matches include: -OutVariable -OutBuffer. At line:1 char:87 + ... \Programming\Learning to Program\" -and g++ Exercise36.cpp -o Exercis ... + ~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Set-Location], ParameterBindingException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : AmbiguousParameter,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetLocationCommand

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Set-Location : Parameter cannot be processed because the parameter name 'o' is ambiguous. Possible matches include: -OutVariable -OutBuffer. At line:1 char:87 + ... \Programming\Learning to Program\" -and g++ Exercise36.cpp -o Exercis ... + ~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Set-Location], ParameterBindingException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : AmbiguousParameter,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetLocationCommand

I am using the GNU open source compiler, this is the first issue I have had with compiling since I realized you have to save before you compile. I am running a simple string that changes all the characters to X from a string that is read from terminal from C++ Primer program. Any help would be appreciated.

I had the same problem, I believe it is caused by the new VS code version 1.35.
I tried downgrading to 1.34 and compiling and running c++ worked again.

The old version seems to run the code with a different command:

“cd $dir ; if ($?) { g++ $fileName -o $fileNameWithoutExt } ; if ($?) { .\\$fileNameWithoutExt}”

in your case it would look like:

cd “c:\Users\Josh\Documents\Programming\Learning to Program\” ; if ($?) { g++ Exercise36.cpp -o Exercise36 } ; if ($?) { .\Exercise36}

For me using this comand compiling and running works in the new VS version aswell.