PowerShell is a versatile and powerful scripting language that can be used to automate various tasks on your system. One common task that often requires the use of PowerShell is working with strings.

In the last paragraph of my column "How To Debug a PowerShell Script," I mentioned that punctuation can be problematic in PowerShell strings. I often catch myself omitting apostrophes, for example, ...

Using built-in cmdlets that come with PowerShell, we can easily read and replace any kind of content inside of a text file. Whether the string to find inside of the text file is just a single word or ...

Strings are a very common thing to see and use in PowerShell. Parameters may take strings and a lot of times the objects that are outputted by various commands have strings as their properties. In ...

Searches the contents of a file object and displays discovered strings of printable characters. Non-printable characters are stripped from the output by default. I wrote this because PowerSploit's Get ...

Have you ever noticed that if you include a variable within a PowerShell Write-Host statement, that variable is evaluated, even if you include the reference to the variable within the quotation marks?

<# .Synopsis Short description .DESCRIPTION Long description .EXAMPLE ConvertTo-KebabCase("Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics") .EXAMPLE Another example of how to use this cmdlet .INPUTS Any string ...