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Nov 8, 2015

PowerTip: Display Numeric ASCII Value of Letter

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display the numeric ASCII value of a letter. How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the numeric ASCII value associated with a letter? Use [byte] and [char] together. The following example will display the numeric ASCII value of the capital letter A:[byte][char]'A'

Feb 15, 2014

String Formatting in Windows PowerShell

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Learn about using formatted strings in Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Today we have another guest blog by June Blender. To read more of June’s previous posts, see these Hey, Scripting Guy Blog posts. Now, here’s June… I recently had the opportunity to help the Windows Azure and ASP.NET prod...