{"id":85967,"date":"2015-11-06T06:17:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T14:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/?p=85967"},"modified":"2019-06-06T06:20:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T14:20:54","slug":"powertip-find-if-variable-is-array-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-if-variable-is-array-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find if Variable Is Array"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to find if a variable is an array.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to find if a variable contains an array?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the –is<\/b> operator, and test to see if it is a type of [array]<\/b>, for example:<\/p>\n

$a = 1,2,4,5,6,7<\/p>\n

$a -is [array]<\/p>\n

\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find if a variable is an array.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find if a variable contains an array?  Use the –is operator, and test to see if it is a type of [array], for example: $a = 1,2,4,5,6,7 $a -is [array]<\/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":[553,600,3,45],"class_list":["post-85967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-ise","tag-powershell-5-0","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find if a variable is an array.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find if a variable contains an array?  Use the –is operator, and test to see if it is a type of [array], for example: $a = 1,2,4,5,6,7 $a -is [array]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85967","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=85967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85967\/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=85967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}