[powershell] FW: Powershell array question and formatting question

2017-10-19 Thread Michael B. Smith
Hmph. I was kicked-off the PowerShell list for some reason. Here is my response. From: Michael B. Smith Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 2:20 PM To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com; powershell@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: Powershell array question and formatting question An array in Windows is

[powershell] RE: Powershell array question and formatting question

2017-10-19 Thread Raymond Peng
Ah - that makes sense. The formatting threw me off as I could not see any property via get-member that looked like Destination. Love the feedback from these posts, thank you Michael and all!! Thank you, Ray From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Beha

RE: [powershell] Powershell array question and formatting question

2017-10-19 Thread Raymond Peng
Thank you Devin and all who responded – this makes sense and I will be using this to declare new arrays (albeit difficult to remember). The last formatting part is not working because there’s nothing to be piped apparently PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> foreach ($comp in $array){Test-Connection $comp

[powershell] RE: Powershell array question and formatting question

2017-10-19 Thread Donnie Taylor
Avoid using '+=' for anything. Every time you add something using that method, it destroys and recreates the entire array. For small lists that not a big deal, but for large lists it is a performance nightmare. I personally prefer array lists for ease of manipulation, and the fact that I can

Re: [powershell] Powershell array question and formatting question

2017-10-19 Thread Devin Rich
Hi Ray, Welcome to the world of guessing! Where the powershell developers had to guess which type of arrays to give you by default. In Powershell, there are arrays that are static (fixed length), and real arrays like you know from C#, etc. In powershell, $a = 1,2,3 will give you one of those stati