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#PSTip A difference between the –replace operator and String.Replace method

Jakub Jareš
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12 Nov, 2012
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The -replace operator takes a regular expression (regex) replacement rule as input and replaces every match with the replacement string. The operator itself is used as shown in the following schema: <input string> -replace <replacement …

Assign a list of processes to a variable and output it to the console

Aleksandar Nikolic
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12 Nov, 2012
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Hello everyone! The Brain Teaser series continues. First, we need to announce the winner of the previous brain teaser. We got a lot of answers, but only three of them fulfilled all requirements ( the answers that use -split operator, the Split() …

Convert a string to a character array

Shay Levy
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05 Nov, 2012
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Hello everyone! We are back with a series of Brain Teasers. In the next 3 weeks we will publish one teaser per week.

Find an unused drive letter

Shay Levy
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12 Jan, 2012
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Problem Your task is to write the shortest code to find one of the unused drive letters (excluding a,b and c).

Enum’s numeric values

Robert Robelo
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13 Sep, 2011
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Problem Without any loop statements or pipelines, get the numeric values of an Enum (such as IO.FileAttributes) in 1 statement.

Private variable

Robert Robelo
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13 Sep, 2011
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Problem Attain the value of a private variable declared in a child scope from that scope’s own child scope.

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