Showing results for March 2013 - Page 8 of 13 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display the value of Pi to three decimal places.  How can I display the value of Pi to three decimal places by using conditional formatting to avoid rounding numbers up or down?  Use the Fixed-Point (“F”) Format Specifier, and specify the number of desired decimal places. The following t...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell and conditional formatting to format numbers.  Hey, Scripting Guy! One of the big problems I have when it comes to using Windows PowerShell is figuring out how to properly format numbers. I mean, I can easily use [int] to get rid of hundreds of decimal places, but...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to easily create a sortable date.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to create an ISO 8601 standard sortable date time-stamp for my logging solution?  Use the Sortable Format Specifier in the ToString method from Get-Date: PS C:\> (Get-Date).ToString("s") 2013-03-12T13:39:18 ...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to specify composite formatting to format strings.  Hey, Scripting Guy! Often I need to create an output string that is the result of multiple computations. In the past, I have used multiple lines to create this sort of outputs, but now I would like to simplify t...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to display the date in a month, day, and two-digit year format.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to display the date in a month, day, and two-digit number format with a hyphen between each of the elements?  Use the ToString method from the Get-Date cmdlet and specify a patt...