{"id":74461,"date":"2015-11-05T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/11\/05\/powertip-use-powershell-to-display-ascii-characters\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:34:38","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-display-ascii-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-display-ascii-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Display ASCII Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to display ASCII characters.<\/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 quickly display printable ASCII characters when I am not connected <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to the Internet?<\/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 range operator to create a range of numbers 1 through 128, pipe it to&nbsp;<b>Foreach-Object<\/b>&nbsp;(<b>%<\/b>&nbsp;is the alias), <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and display the current object and the&nbsp;<b>[char]<\/b>&nbsp;value on the pipeline, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">1..128 | %{&quot;$_ $([char]$_)&quot;}<\/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: Use Windows PowerShell to display ASCII characters. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to quickly display printable ASCII characters when I am not connected &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to the Internet? &nbsp;Use the range operator to create a range of numbers 1 through 128, pipe it to&nbsp;Foreach-Object&nbsp;(%&nbsp;is the alias), &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&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":[634,356,3,336,45],"class_list":["post-74461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-ascii","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-strings","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display ASCII characters. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to quickly display printable ASCII characters when I am not connected &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to the Internet? &nbsp;Use the range operator to create a range of numbers 1 through 128, pipe it to&nbsp;Foreach-Object&nbsp;(%&nbsp;is the alias), &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74461","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=74461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74461\/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=74461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}