Windows PowerShell in Action

Chapter 3. Working with types

3.1	Type management in the wild, wild west	55
3.2	Basic types and literals	60
3.3	Type conversions	79
3.4	Summary	86

	“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
	--Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

As we’ve discussed previously, the use of objects in PowerShell makes PowerShell unlike most shell environments, which can only deal with strings. And where you have objects, you also have object types. In fact much of the power in PowerShell comes from the innovative way we use types. In this chapter, we’ll look at the PowerShell type system and how to take advantage of it, and examine some of the things you can accomplish with types in ...