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Summary: PowerShell MVP, Mike F Robbins, discusses case sensitivity in Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger, Mike Robbins. Mike F Robbins is a Microsoft MVP for Windows PowerShell and a SAPIEN Technologies MVP. He is a co-author of Windows PowerShell TFM 4th Edition, and is a contributing auth...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to replace non-alphabetic characters in a string. How can I use Windows PowerShell to replace a string that contains non-alphabetic characters            (such as commas and periods)? Use the –Replace operator, and specify a regex pattern '[^a-zA-Z]', for e...

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about identifying palindromes that are more than a single word.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the coolest things about palindromes is that they can be formed with sentences. It is also what makes them the most subtle. For example, whereas it is pretty obvious that mom, dad, and...

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about using Windows PowerShell to find palindromes. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I enjoy playing around with words. I like words that sound similar to each other, such as to, too, and two. I also like words that look alike, and sound alike but have different meanings depending on th...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display ASCII characters.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to quickly display printable ASCII characters when I am not connected            to the Internet?  Use the range operator to create a range of numbers 1 through 128, pipe it to Foreach-Object (% is th...