The SeqNinja Language

The SeqNinja language supports comments and statements. Statements include actions, assignments and settings.

• Actions are viewed as commands.

• Assignments store data in a file or variable.

• Settings configure options used implicitly throughout the rest of the script.

The following list outlines general conventions of the SeqNinja scripting language:

• In a script file, a statement may be spread over multiple lines, but may not be placed on the same line as another statement.

• Variables (e.g., file paths, etc.) are only stored in SeqNinja’s memory until the end of the session, or until overwritten, whichever occurs first.

• White space and comments are always ignored.

• Single-line comments can be added after typing the characters ; or //.

• Multi-line comments can be added after typing the characters /* or */.

• SeqNinja supports non-ASCII characters in filenames, but non-ASCII characters may not be used as variables.

• Scripts with non-ASCII characters, including international characters, must be saved with the UTF-8 encoding, without byte order marks.

• Double quotes should be used around individual file paths, whether in settings or sequence expressions. Double quotes inside of paths are never supported.

• Single-quotes should be used to signify a file pattern.

• Forward slashes are supported in file paths on both Windows and Macintosh. Backslashes are supported only on Windows. If a script is intended to be run on both systems, use forward slashes in file paths.