Monthly Archives: February 2018

PowerShell has a number of looping structures – do; while; for; foreach. This is how the PowerShell while loop works The while statement has the form: while (<condition>){<statement list>} The while loop is probably the simplest of the PowerShell loops. … Continue reading →

A common question revolves around Get-Date format. In other words how can you format the output of Get-Date.  Standard output is PS> Get-Date 27 February 2018 16:02:13 You can use –DisplayHint to control what’s displayed PS> Get-Date -DisplayHint Date 27 … Continue reading →

We keep innovating around the content of the PowerShell Summit to ensure it remains fresh and relevant to our attendees. This year we’re introducing the Iron Scripter competition. As a run up to the main competition I’ve written a number … Continue reading →

PowerShell Scope has an important impact on the way your code runs. When you run a script or a function in PowerShell it runs it in its own scope. This means that all variables, functions, classes, aliases etc are removed … Continue reading →

The PowerShell if statement enables you to branch your code depending in the results of one or more conditional tests. The tests can be anything you need but must produce a boolean – true/false – result.   Also 0 is treated … Continue reading →