{"id":85955,"date":"2015-07-04T07:07:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T15:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/?p=85955"},"modified":"2019-06-05T07:08:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:08:13","slug":"powertip-multiply-value-in-variable-and-store-results-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-multiply-value-in-variable-and-store-results-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Multiply Value in Variable and Store Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px;\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px;\">: Use Windows PowerShell to multiply the value stored in a variable and store the results.<\/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 multiply the value of a variable and store the results in the same variable?<\/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 *= operator, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px;\">PS C:\\&gt; $a = 2<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px;\">PS C:\\&gt; $a *= 3<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px;\">PS C:\\&gt; $a<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px;\">6<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/prod.evol.blogs.technet.com\/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles\/00\/00\/00\/76\/18\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" original-url=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.comhttps:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/09\/dr_scripto-102x150.gif\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to multiply the value stored in a variable and store the results. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to multiply the value of a variable and store the results in the same variable? &nbsp;Use the *= operator, for example: PS C:\\&gt; $a = 2 PS C:\\&gt; $a *= 3 PS C:\\&gt; [&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":[],"class_list":["post-85955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to multiply the value stored in a variable and store the results. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to multiply the value of a variable and store the results in the same variable? &nbsp;Use the *= operator, for example: PS C:\\&gt; $a = 2 PS C:\\&gt; $a *= 3 PS C:\\&gt; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85955","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=85955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85955\/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=85955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}