"my script name" is a type, not a valid in the given context

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error = “MeshScript” is a type, not a valied in the given context

        position = transform.position;

        //var meshScript = new MeshScript();
        var obj = GameObject.Find("Terain");
        var script = obj.GetComponent(MeshScript);
        script.MeshManipulate(position.x, position.y, position.z, scaler);
        Debug.Log(script);
    }

that where im getting an error from and I don’t understand why.
I would appreciate any help with this issue, thanks

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Seems like you’ve got a small typo here, you want to use getcomponent this way instead:
var script = obj.GetComponent<MeshScript>();

Also remember, C# is case sensitive, which means when you declare a variable, you have to consider upper and lower case of every character on it, when using it.

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Both these should be valid:
obj.GetComponent();
obj.GetComponent(“MeshScript”);

The first one is preferred. The way you have it written is invalid syntax.

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can anyone tell me why unity doesnt let you instantiate a class that inherits from “mono”, or if it does not the usual way by using the “new” keyword.

and thanks that helped.

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That’s because those classes are components for game objects and their creation requires special handling done by unity in AddComponent method

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ok, thanks that makes sense

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for me it was another problem where I wrote

alertScript as = alert.GetComponent();

don’t use as as var name …

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You’re necroing the post and even worse, with false information. This is a C# compiler thing, nothing to do with Unity or that specific method.

var just let’s the compiler infer the type, it’s no different and isn’t a source of errors. In your case above, it’d be “alertScript”.

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Sure, you’re not supposed to use a reserved keyword as an identifier in C#.
How do you think the parser can differentiate what you mean?

Here is the list of all reserved keywords in C#, the bottom list are the contextual ones (such as value or yield), but if you can help it, avoid those as well.

If you really need to specify a name that is a reserved keyword, prepend @ sign to it, like so

AlertScript @as = alert.GetComponent<AlertScript>();

I would advise against doing this in 99.99% cases.

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Ah, now I read it again the OP was asking about using “as”. I thought that was a typo (typed twice) and they meant using “var”.

Still, the post is still a nercro/hijack … please no!