Add Char to string based on number.
What would be the best way to handle this?If I wanted to insert leading characters based on a length defined by a number. I would like to use in a PowerShell Script where I can do $value.length then...
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Strings have an Insert() method. Insert(2,”x”) would insert “x” at the 2nd position. You could also use the PadLeft() or PadRight() methods, which accept a desired string length and the length you’d...
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PadLeft() is perfect for what I need. Thank you both.
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I’ve had that happen several times over the past few days. When it does, I found that I can get things working again by going to the “Edit My Profile” link, then back to the PowerShell.org main site...
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In terms of “Best practices”, here’s what I would do differently:Don’t set $ErrorActionPreference to “SilentlyContinue”. Sweeping errors under the rug and not handling them is a bad habit. You don’t...
View ArticleGeneric PowerShell string tokenizer (work in progress, seeking opinions)
In this post, I went looking for a generic string tokenizer for .NET or PowerShell that would handle quoted tokens with embedded delimeters, escaped quotes, etc. I was surprised not to find one, so I’m...
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Dave,Re-tried this evening and it would seem I was making a mistake in the command and that it is NOT case sensitive. I can only assume a trailing space or something in notepad where I was manipulating...
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Hello Sir,I am really impressed by your answers. It is a great lesson for me. Thank you. I understand better the need to adapt the same ThreadingModel between WMI and PS. Also,I naively transposed a...
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I hadn’t used these methods before and was playing around with it. It doesn’t appear to work with spaces. Thoughts? PS C:\Windows\system32> $test = "TEST" PS C:\Windows\system32>...
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No problem! This might be useful for my company, as well. In some places, we use SSH with certificate authentication for this same type of scenario (scheduled tasks authenticating to workgroup...
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No problem at all. Bonne chance!
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I’m not sure what output you’re expecting to see, Rob. “This is a test” is longer than 10 characters, so the PadLeft method will just return the original string. If you increased the first argument to...
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Ahhh, I get it now. I was thinking it was going to be 10 A’s appended to the front the string versus adding A’s for a total length of 10. Though the lightbulb may be dim, it’s on now. Thanks Dave....
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Just noticed what the forums did to some of my quotation marks, and now I can’t edit it. The ugly stuff was supposed to look like this: Get-StringToken -Delimiter " `t" versus Get-StringToken...
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This is a line with embedded$string = "PowerShell code in a PRE tag.". Did it work?This is a line with embedded $string = "PowerShell code in a CODE tag.". Did it work?
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Removed the attachment. I’ve made updates to the code, mainly learning to spell “Delimiter”. (Okay, actually there were more changes, including comment-based help, etc.)Rather than keeping an...
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So, there’s a POSSIBILITY we’ll hold a Winter Games in the last portion of this year, or the first portion of 2014.The format would be slightly different. You’ll still receive an event assignment, and...
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I vote for late January (after the holidays, rather than before).I’d also be willing to help draft scenarios
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Seems like a good plan. Differentiating from the Summer games adds a bit of variety and the collaborative aspects should make for some interesting results.A single track will work but I think we’ll...
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