database-tools

Let's assume you have an array of items which you would like to sort. Here is the PowerShell way: $array = 1,5,32,5,7$array | Sort-Object$array...

URLs contain a lot of information which can be automatically parsed by PowerShell. Simply convert a URL to the System.URI type. Once you did this,...

HTML on web pages uses tags and other special characters to define the page. To make sure text is not misinterpreted as HTML tags, you may want to...

To check whether a string contains a valid host name, you can use the CheckHostName() method provided by the System.URI type. It will return...

To make sure user input is a valid URL, you can use the System.URI type. Try to convert the raw string into this type. If it works, the string is a...

To reverse the order of elements in an array, the most efficient way is to use the [Array] type and its static method Reverse(): # Create an array...

By adding a ValidateSetAttribute to a variable, you can force it to accept only values that match a given set. Once you add this attribute in the...

With strong typing, you can limit a variable to only a certain data type such as String: [String]$a = 'Hello' By adding a...

To check for a valid IP-address, use the .NET Framework type System.Net.IPAddress and test whether the data can be converted into this format:...

To check for valid email addresses, you can use the .NET Framework type System.Net.Mail.MailAddress and test whether the data can be converted into...

To exit a function immediately, use the return statement. The next function expects a name (including wildcards) and lists all matching processes....

Want to quickly get a number of interesting details for any drive? Use the .NET System.IO.DriveInfo class like this: New-Object System.io.DriveInfo...