Richard Siddaway's Blog : Strings

Working with strings: bits and pieces

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:19:46 GMT

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...(read more)

Working with strings: I’m a substitute

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:38:12 GMT

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...(read more)

Working with strings: likes and dislikes

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:53:25 GMT

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...(read more)

Working with Strings: Simple comparisons

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:25:58 GMT

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...(read more)