jamtronix

I've just started dabbling with monad (aka "Windows Powershell"), so I tried porting my code for 'rendering HTML from irb' to it. It turns out to be a pretty good task for getting to know a new REPL environment.

Just for the record, this is what I came up with:

function Show-HTML ([string]$html) {
    $ie=New-Object -ComObject InternetExplorer.Application
    $ie.menubar=0
    $ie.toolbar=0
    $ie.statusbar=0
    $ie.navigate("about:blank")
    $ie.document.write($html)
    $html=[string]$input
    $ie.document.write($html)
    $ie.visible="true"
}

You can either pass a string param, as in Show-Html "Hello World!", or you can pipe HTML in. Monad also has a nifty builtin called 'ConvertTo-HTML' which pretty much does what it says. So in order to get the same HTML table of environment variables from the irb example, you could use

dir Env:  | ConvertTo-HTML Name,Value | Show-HTML