Category Archives: Strings

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() … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 all return True   … Continue reading →