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Letter frequency analysis of text by using PowerShell

April 8, 2016 Apr 8, 2016 04/8/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to do letter frequency analysis of a text enabling one to see how often a letter occurs. This is the first post in a multi-part series of blog posts that deal with how to determine letter frequency in text files. To fully understand this post, you should read ...

Weekend Scripter: Parsing the DISM Log with PowerShell

September 27, 2015 Sep 27, 2015 09/27/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about parsing the DISM log with Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the things I like to do on weekends is mess around. So I was intrigued when I found a DISM command that would supposedly export file associations (see DISM Default Application Association ...

Break Text File into Chunks with PowerShell

September 22, 2015 Sep 22, 2015 09/22/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about breaking the contents of a text file into chunks with Windows PowerShell. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! The other day, you tweeted Get First 140 Characters from String with PowerShell. That is fine, but what about the rest of the text? I mean, if I want to break a text file into ...