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, ...

One of the reasons for converting a string to a date data type is to make arithmetic and comparison operations easier to perform. This guide will discuss all available methods to convert string to ...

Using built-in cmdlets that come with PowerShell, we can easily read and replace any kind of content inside of a text file. Whether the string to find inside of the text file is just a single word or ...

Writing PowerShell scripts can be extremely helpful in automating tasks, but having to search all over the place to replace multiple lines of text can be difficult. With a few commands, we show you ...

The FlashExtract technology (published as a PLDI 2014 paper [pdf |ppt slides |Video |Video 2]) ships as features in Powershell and Azure OMS (Operations Management Suite). FlashExtract powers the ...

Here's how to make your data more useful -- or even just more presentable -- using the Join and Split operators and the Split method. With PowerShell, there are many ways to work with data. In this ...