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Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

By : Chris Dent
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Book Image

Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

5 (1)
By: Chris Dent

Overview of this book

PowerShell scripts offer a convenient way to automate various tasks, but working with them can be daunting. Mastering PowerShell Scripting takes away the fear and helps you navigate through PowerShell's capabilities.This extensively revised edition includes new chapters on debugging and troubleshooting and creating GUIs (online chapter). Learn the new features of PowerShell 7.1 by working with parameters, objects, and .NET classes from within PowerShell 7.1. This comprehensive guide starts with the basics before moving on to advanced topics, including asynchronous processing, desired state configuration, using more complex scripts and filters, debugging issues, and error-handling techniques. Explore how to efficiently manage substantial amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell 7.1. This book will help you to make the most of PowerShell's automation features, using different methods to parse data, manipulate regular expressions, and work with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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switch

A switch statement executes statements where a case evaluates to true. The case can be a number, a string, or any other value. Switch is similar in some respects to an if, elseif, or else statement. The key difference is that, in switch, more than one condition can match the value being tested.

A switch statement uses the following generalized notation:

switch [-regex|-wildcard|-exact][-casesensitive] (<value>) { 
    <case>   { <statements> } 
    <case>   { <statements> } 
    default  { <statements> }
}

The value is the "subject" of the switch statement; it is compared to each of the cases in turn.

The casesensitive parameter applies when the cases are strings.

Each case is evaluated in turn and, by default, any matching cases will execute. The default case is optional and will only be executed if no other case matches as shown here:

$value = 2 
switch ($value) { 
    1       { Write-Host 'value...