{"id":72891,"date":"2015-10-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/10\/07\/powertip-concatenate-string-array-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:34:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:34:59","slug":"powertip-concatenate-string-array-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-concatenate-string-array-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Concatenate String Array with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to concatenate elements of a array.<\/span><\/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 concatenate the elements of a string 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 static&nbsp;<b>Concat<\/b>&nbsp;method from the&nbsp;<b>String<\/b>&nbsp;class, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$a = &quot;string a&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$b = &quot;string b&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$arr = @($a,$b)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">[string]::Concat($arr)<\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to concatenate elements of a array. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to concatenate the elements of a string array? &nbsp;Use the static&nbsp;Concat&nbsp;method from the&nbsp;String&nbsp;class, for example: $a = &quot;string a&quot; $b = &quot;string b&quot; $arr = @($a,$b) [string]::Concat($arr)<\/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":[442,356,3,4,45],"class_list":["post-72891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-arrays","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to concatenate elements of a array. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to concatenate the elements of a string array? &nbsp;Use the static&nbsp;Concat&nbsp;method from the&nbsp;String&nbsp;class, for example: $a = &quot;string a&quot; $b = &quot;string b&quot; $arr = @($a,$b) [string]::Concat($arr)<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72891","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=72891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72891\/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=72891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}