{"id":671,"date":"2014-09-16T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/09\/16\/powertip-change-value-of-element-in-array-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2014-09-16T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-change-value-of-element-in-array-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-change-value-of-element-in-array-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Change Value of Element in Array with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to change the value of an element in an array.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to update one of the values in one of the elements of an array?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Item<\/b><i>&nbsp;<\/i>method to retrieve the element and assign a new value. Here is an example of <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;updating the value of the first element in an array:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$a = 1,2,3,4,5<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$a.Item(0) = 12<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$a<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note&nbsp;<\/b>&nbsp;Remember that in Windows PowerShell, all arrays are zero-based. This means that the first <br \/>element is actually element 0.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to change the value of an element in an array. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to update one of the values in one of the elements of an array? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Item&nbsp;method to retrieve the element and assign a new value. Here is an example of &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"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-671","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":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to change the value of an element in an array. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to update one of the values in one of the elements of an array? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Item&nbsp;method to retrieve the element and assign a new value. Here is an example of &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","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\/595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/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=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}