{"id":5110,"date":"2012-08-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/08\/18\/powertip-use-powershell-to-simplify-working-with-random-numbers\/"},"modified":"2012-08-18T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-simplify-working-with-random-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-simplify-working-with-random-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Simplify Working with Random Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn about using Windows PowerShell to generate random numbers.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I generate a random number?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, <\/p>\n

a. Use the Get-Random<\/b> cmdlet.<\/p>\n

b. Use the System.Random .NET Framework class, and call the next()<\/b> method:<\/p>\n

([random]5).next()<\/p>\n

\n

\"Hey, How can I generate a random number between the values of 1 and 10?<\/p>\n

 \"Hey,<\/p>\n

a. Use the System.Random .NET Framework class, and call the next()<\/b> method:<\/p>\n

([random]5).next(“1”,”10”)<\/p>\n

b. Use the Get-Random<\/b> cmdlet:<\/p>\n

Get-Random -Maximum 10 -Minimum 1<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Learn about using Windows PowerShell to generate random numbers.  How can I generate a random number?   a. Use the Get-Random cmdlet. b. Use the System.Random .NET Framework class, and call the next() method: ([random]5).next()  How can I generate a random number between the values of 1 and 10?   a. Use the System.Random .NET Framework class, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-5110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Learn about using Windows PowerShell to generate random numbers.  How can I generate a random number?   a. Use the Get-Random cmdlet. b. Use the System.Random .NET Framework class, and call the next() method: ([random]5).next()  How can I generate a random number between the values of 1 and 10?   a. Use the System.Random .NET Framework class, and […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}