Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Line break after an operator

It is possible to add a line break after any of the operators. The most useful place for a line break is often after a logic operator is used to combine several comparisons, for example:

Get-Service | Where-Object {    $_.Status -eq 'Running' -and    $_.StartType -eq 'Manual'}

One of the less obvious operators is the property dereference operator, .. A line break may be added after calling a method of accessing a property. This is shown in the following example:

{ A long string in a script block }.ToString().                                    SubString(0, 15).                                    Trim().                                    Length