{"id":5120,"date":"2012-08-15T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/08\/15\/powertip-the-finer-points-of-finessing-an-array\/"},"modified":"2012-08-15T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-the-finer-points-of-finessing-an-array","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-the-finer-points-of-finessing-an-array\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: The Finer Points of Finessing an Array"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn how to replace items in an array and how to sort an array.<\/p>\n

\"Hey,I need to replace the “2” with “12” in the $array<\/b> variable shown here:<\/p>\n

$array = “1”,”2″,”3″,”4″<\/p>\n

How can I do this?<\/p>\n

 \"Hey,<\/p>\n

    \n
      \n
    1. $array=[regex]::replace($array,”2″,”12″)<\/li>\n
    2. $array = $array -replace “2”,”12″<\/li>\n
    3. $array.SetValue(“12”,1)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

      \"Hey,I have an array defined in the $array<\/b> variable shown here.<\/p>\n

      $array = 2,5,9,12,3,5<\/p>\n

      What is the easiest way to sort the array?<\/p>\n

      \"Hey, <\/p>\n

      1. Sort the array by using the sort<\/b> <\/i>static method from the [array] .NET Framework class.<\/p>\n

      [array]::sort($array)<\/p>\n

      2. Pipe the array to the Sort-Object<\/b> cmdlet, and store the results back in the $array<\/b> variable.<\/p>\n

       $array = $array | sort<\/p>\n

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

      Summary: Learn how to replace items in an array and how to sort an array. I need to replace the “2” with “12” in the $array variable shown here: $array = “1”,”2″,”3″,”4″ How can I do this?   $array=[regex]::replace($array,”2″,”12″) $array = $array -replace “2”,”12″ $array.SetValue(“12”,1) I have an array defined in the $array variable shown here. $array = 2,5,9,12,3,5 […]<\/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-5120","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 how to replace items in an array and how to sort an array. I need to replace the “2” with “12” in the $array variable shown here: $array = “1”,”2″,”3″,”4″ How can I do this?   $array=[regex]::replace($array,”2″,”12″) $array = $array -replace “2”,”12″ $array.SetValue(“12”,1) I have an array defined in the $array variable shown here. $array = 2,5,9,12,3,5 […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120","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=5120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120\/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=5120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}