Automating Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Administration with Windows PowerShell® 2.0

CHAPTER 2

Filtering and Iterating Your Data

IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN TO:

• ADD CONDITIONAL LOGIC

  Use Comparison and Logic Operators

  Use the If/ElseIf/Else Statements

  Use the Switch Statement

• FILTER YOUR DATA

  Use the Where-Object Cmdlet

  Use the Sort-Object Cmdlet

  Use the Select-Object Cmdlet

• ITERATE THROUGH YOUR DATA

  Use While Loops

  Use Do While Loops

  Use Do Until Loops

  Use For Loops

  Use Foreach Loops

  Use the ForEach-Object Cmdlet

Once you've declared your variables and have received a result set from the various Windows PowerShell and SharePoint 2010 cmdlets, you will often need to perform some conditional logic based on the data, filter the data, or loop through the data to perform some additional operations. The constructs and cmdlets ...