#dotnet-helpers

PowerShell : Continue Keyword

Continue Keyword in PowerShell One of the things that is a bit confusing for powershell beginner is the Continue statement. This is partially because it does not act like it might in some other languages. Next question will arise, then what does the Continue statement do in Windows PowerShell? the answer is it returns flow to the top of the innermost loop that is controlled by a While, For,…

Power Shell – Containment Operators

Power Shell Containment Operators The containment operators (-contains and -notcontains) are similar to the equal operators. However, the containment operators always return a Boolean value, even when the input is a collection. The conditional operator -Contains is similar to -eq, except it returns ‘True’ or ‘False’. -Contains is designed for situations where you wish to test for one particular…

Do-While & Do-Until Loop in PowerShell Loops are an essential construct in any programming language as they enable a block of code to be repeatedly executed based on the condition. This can be useful for iterating through items in an object or repeatedly performing an operation. PowerShell supports involves setting a condition which either allows the loop to process as long as the condition is…

Power Shell – Type comparison

What is comparison Operator? Comparison operators let you specify conditions for comparing values and finding values that match specified patterns. To use a comparison operator, specify the values that you want to compare together with an operator that separates these values. Type comparison The type comparison operators (-is and -isnot) are used to determine if an object is a specific type.…

PowerShell – Replacement Operator

Replacement Operator PowerShell provides several options to help you replace text in a string with other text. The -replace operator replaces all or part of a value with the specified value using regular expressions. It replaces every occurrence of the exact string you specify with the exact replacement string that you provide. The -replaceoperator provides much more flexibility because its…

PowerShell – Matching Operators

-like and -notlike Operators The like operators find elements that match or do not match a specified pattern using wildcard expressions. How its handle single & Collection values? If we input scalar value, comparison operators return a Boolean value. When the input is a collection of values, the comparison operators return any matching values. If there are no matches found in a collection then…

PowerShell – Equal Operators

Equal Operators: The equal operators return a value of TRUE if its identical or return a value of FALSE if it is not identical. The entire pattern must match an entire value. By default, all comparison operators are case-insensitive. To make a comparison operator case-sensitive, precede the operator name with a “c”. For example, the case-sensitive version of -eq is -ceq. To make the…

Comparison Operators and Conditional Logic Comparison operators let you specify conditions for comparing values and finding values that match specified patterns. To use a comparison operator, specify the values that you want to compare together with an operator that separates these values. Equality Operators  Description -eq equals -ne not equals -gt greater than -ge greater than or equal -lt…