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Working with strings: bits and pieces

In the previous post I showed how to generate the parent OUs by splitting and rejoining a string. I used the operators –split and –join These were introduced in PowerShell v2. In PowerShell v1 we had to use the split() method and stitch the thing...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2011 2:19 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Strings

Working with strings: I’m a substitute

PowerShell string substitution is a very neat trick PS (1) > $string = "World" PS (2) > "Hello $string" Hello World We can substitute the value of the variable into the string. The catch – it only works with double quoted...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2011 9:38 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Strings

Working with strings: likes and dislikes

Lets start with a string $str = "abcdefghi" We often only have part of a string to work with so we end up using –like $str -like "abc*" $str -like "*abc*" $str -like "*def*" $str -like "*ghi" these...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2011 4:53 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Strings

Working with Strings: Simple comparisons

Lets start with simple string matching as its a task that frequently comes along "aaa" -eq "aaa" "aaa" -ceq "aaa" both return true. What’s –ceq you ask? PowerShell by design is case insensitive so for...

Published Sat, Jul 07 2011 4:25 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Strings

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