In many projects, you will get requirements to encode and decode strings, and PowerShell is the best option. In this tutorial, I will explain how to use PowerShell to encode and decode strings. To encode and decode strings in PowerShell, use Base64 encoding by converting the string to bytes with [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($string) and then encoding with … Read more
Recently, one of my team members asked me to find the length of a string using PowerShell. I tried different methods for this. In this tutorial, I will show you how to get length of a string in PowerShell using various methods. To get the length of a string in PowerShell, you can use the … Read more
If you are a beginner in PowerShell, then you may find this tutorial interesting. Here, I will show you how to add double quotes to a string in PowerShell using different methods. To add double quotes in a string in PowerShell, you can use escape characters, where backticks () are used to escape double quotes, … Read more
This tutorial is about case-insensitive string comparison in PowerShell. This is a very common requirement when working with strings. I will show you how to do case-insensitive string comparisons in PowerShell using various methods. To compare strings case-insensitively in PowerShell, you can use the -ieq operator, which explicitly specifies a case-insensitive comparison. For example: In … Read more
When working with strings in PowerShell, you might required to determine the size of a string in bytes. In this tutorial, I will share different methods with examples to get the string length in bytes using PowerShell. To get the length of a string in bytes in PowerShell, you can use the System.Text.Encoding class. For example, using … Read more
If you are working with strings in PowerShell, you might get requirements to compare strings in PowerShell. In this PowerShell tutorial, I will explain how to compare strings in PowerShell using various methods with examples. To compare strings in PowerShell, you can use the -eq operator for case-insensitive equality checks or -ceq for case-sensitive comparisons. … Read more
While working on an automation script, I needed to convert a variable to a string in PowerShell. I tried different methods and thought I’d share. In this PowerShell tutorial, I will show you how to convert variables to strings in PowerShell. To convert variables to strings in PowerShell, you can use the ToString() method. This method can … Read more
You should know about filtering strings in PowerShell if you are working with strings. PowerShell provides different methods and cmdlets to filter strings in PowerShell. In this tutorial, I will show you how to filter strings in PowerShell with various examples. To filter strings in PowerShell using Select-String, you can pipe the string to the … Read more
Sometimes, you might need to split a string by newlines while working with strings. PowerShell provides various methods for this. In this PowerShell tutorial, I will explain how to split strings by newlines in PowerShell using various methods. To split a string by newlines in PowerShell use the -split operator. For example, if you have a string … Read more
Today, I thought I would do a different example of split strings in PowerShell. In this tutorial, I will show you how to split a string by word in PowerShell with a complete script and examples. Split a String by Word in PowerShell Now, let us check various methods to split a string by word … Read more
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