Using JScript in powershell

Question 1

Reading through the documentation for powershells add-type it seems you can add JScript code to you powershell session.

Firstly is there a decent example of how this is done and secondly can you use this to validate normal javascript code (as I understand JScript is the MS implementation)

Question 2

This may be a good starting point

PowerShell ABC’s – J is for JavaScript (by Joe Pruitt)

Here is a code snippet from the above article:

function Create-ScriptEngine()
{
  param([string]$language = $null, [string]$code = $null);
  if ( $language )
  {
    $sc = New-Object -ComObject ScriptControl;
    $sc.Language = $language;
    if ( $code )
    {
      $sc.AddCode($code);
    }
    $sc.CodeObject;
  }
}
PS> $jscode = @"
function jslen(s)
{
  return s.length;
}
"@
PS> $js = Create-ScriptEngine "JScript" $jscode;
PS> $str = "abcd";
PS> $js.jslen($str);
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function Create-ScriptEngine()

{

param([string]$language = $null, [string]$code = $null);

if ( $language )

{

$sc = New-Object -ComObject ScriptControl;

$sc.Language = $language;

if ( $code )

{

$sc.AddCode($code);

}

$sc.CodeObject;

}

PS> $jscode = @"

function jslen(s)

{

return s.length;

}

"@

PS> $js = Create-ScriptEngine "JScript" $jscode;

PS> $str = "abcd";

PS> $js.jslen($str);

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