Use Hash Tables To Convert Numeric Return Values

You can use Hash Tables to translate individual return values to clear text. This example shows you how to convert return codes 0 and 5 to some clear text representation:

$cleartext = @{
0 = ‘success’
5 = ‘access denied’
}

You can use the return value as an index to get back the clear text representation of a numeric return value:

$rv = [some call to a command producing a numeric return value]
$cleartext[$rv]

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