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PowerShell For Programmers: Here Strings, There Strings, Everywhere Some String Strings

Kory ThacherJune 19, 2018Jun 19, 201806/19/18

There won't be much code in today's post, but this can be a useful feature to know about. In addition to the expandable and literal strings we talked about, we can also use something called a Here String. Here strings allow us to have quote characters inside of our string that match the quote characters we use to create that string. For ...

Doing more with functions: Verbose logging, Risk mitigation, and Parameter Sets

Kory ThacherMay 15, 2018May 15, 201805/15/18

Welcome back to PowerShell for Programmers, this week I'm trying gitGist again for the code blocks. Let me know what you think about it vs the normal syntax highlighter I use :) As we've seen in the other posts about functions, attributes are a really cool thing to extend the features we have available to ourselves and for our users. This ...