In this chapter, some of the methods used to work with strings were introduced. Alternate formats such as base64
were explored along with the PowerShell commands for working with CSV formats.
Two new commands from PowerShell 5 were introduced: Convert-String
and ConvertFrom-String
.
Working with byte values in PowerShell was explored as well as the power-of-10
operator.
The System.Math
class adds a great deal of functionality, which was briefly demonstrated.
Finally, we took a brief look at working with DateTime
objects.
In Chapter 10, Regular Expressions, we will look at regular expressions.