{"id":73711,"date":"2015-08-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/27\/powertip-find-numeric-value-of-enum-in-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:27","slug":"powertip-find-numeric-value-of-enum-in-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-numeric-value-of-enum-in-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Numeric Value of Enum in PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to easily find the numeric value of an enum in Windows PowerShell.<\/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 easily find the numeric value of an enumeration?<\/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 square brackets to call the enum, call the enumeration property as a static property, and reference3 <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the&nbsp;<b>value__<\/b>&nbsp;property. Here is an example using the&nbsp;<b>[fruit]<\/b>&nbsp;enum created in yesterday&rsquo;s post,&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/new-powershell-5-feature-enumerations\/\">New PowerShell 5 Feature: Enumerations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">[fruit]::apple.value__<i><\/i><\/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 easily find the numeric value of an enum in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find the numeric value of an enumeration? &nbsp;Use square brackets to call the enum, call the enumeration property as a static property, and reference3 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the&nbsp;value__&nbsp;property. Here is [&hellip;]<\/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":[148,356,3,4,45],"class_list":["post-73711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-enum","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to easily find the numeric value of an enum in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find the numeric value of an enumeration? &nbsp;Use square brackets to call the enum, call the enumeration property as a static property, and reference3 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the&nbsp;value__&nbsp;property. Here is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73711","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=73711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73711\/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=73711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}