{"id":813,"date":"2014-08-16T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/08\/16\/powertip-change-value-of-element-in-powershell-array\/"},"modified":"2014-08-16T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-change-value-of-element-in-powershell-array","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-change-value-of-element-in-powershell-array\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Change Value of Element in PowerShell Array"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>:&nbsp;Learn how to change the value of an element in a Windows PowerShell 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 change the value of the first element in 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;<span style=\"font-size:12px\">Use the <strong>Set<\/strong> method and specify the element number and the new value, for example:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">PS C:\\&gt; $a = 1,2,3,4,5<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">PS C:\\&gt; $a.Set(0,50)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Learn how to change the value of an element in a Windows PowerShell array. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to change the value of the first element in an array? &nbsp;Use the Set method and specify the element number and the new value, for example: PS C:\\&gt; $a = 1,2,3,4,5 PS C:\\&gt; $a.Set(0,50)<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Learn how to change the value of an element in a Windows PowerShell array. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to change the value of the first element in an array? &nbsp;Use the Set method and specify the element number and the new value, for example: PS C:\\&gt; $a = 1,2,3,4,5 PS C:\\&gt; $a.Set(0,50)<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/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=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}