Windows® PowerShell™ Unleashed

Chapter 7 PowerShell and Strings

IN THIS CHAPTER

• System.String

• [String] Type Accelerator

• Select-String Cmdlet

• Simple Operations

• System.String Members

• Wildcards

• Comparison Operators

• Regular Expressions

• Replace Operators

• [RegEx] Type Accelerator

• 2.0 CTP: Join and Split

• Format Operator

• Summary

This chapter explains how PowerShell can be used to deal with strings, and we use examples to help illustrate this important concept.

We examine how strings are handled in the .NET Framework and we look at the [string] type accelerator.

We then move on to the Select-String cmdlet. A brief overview is given of basic operations that can be done with strings.

We go back to the .NET Framework features and look at the members ...