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One thing that I occasionally forget (and it can take me a while to remember the fix) is some apparently strange behaviour when processing an array. Sometimes array-based methods don’t work when there’s only one item (or no items!) to be processed.
It’s all down to PowerShell’s automatic type conversion and is pretty easy to fix. Continue reading “PowerShell: Why the Count Property or += Don’t Work Sometimes”
There’s a pretty simple way to test if something is a valid email address but it’s nice to wrap that around with a bit of code to test for a stream or array of values.
The function and explanation follows.Here’s the full function with an explanation (and alternative way to make it work) afterwards.
Continue reading “PowerShell: Check if an Email Address is Valid”
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