Strings are a very common thing to see and use in PowerShell. Parameters may take strings and a lot of times the objects that are outputted by various commands have strings as their properties. In ...

In the last paragraph of my column "How To Debug a PowerShell Script," I mentioned that punctuation can be problematic in PowerShell strings. I often catch myself omitting apostrophes, for example, ...

In Part 1 of this series, I showed you an example of PowerShell's native validation capabilities. In that installment, I wrote a function that accepted a text string as input. The function then used ...

I'm trying to pull SIDs and usernames from the registry on a windows box for use later in a script, so I wrote a bit of powershell to pull those out, trim off the crap and feed them into an array. The ...