PowerShell for IT Professionals [#18] – Working with text strings

Although PowerShell treats everything as object - including text strings - working with text might be particularly difficult - at least when first approached. In this lesson we are going to have a closer look at what is possible with built in text methods and see how these can help us e.g. by extracting a substring of text. PowerShell can also be great at parsing log files - we will use Select-String to quickly filter out the lines of text with the phrase we are looking for e....

3 November 2020 · 2 min · 395 words · Kamil

Do something different

Sometimes I am so deep in my thoughts that I have no notion of what time of the day is. I know I should be doing something, anything but wasting my time… Life is too short to waste time but all the possibilities somehow don’t even cross my mind. Do you get the same feeling where you can literally stare at the wall opposite while the time stands still? It’s a horrible feeling....

24 July 2016 · 2 min · 358 words · Kamil