15. PowerShell Programming
In This Chapter
• This chapter describes PowerShell as a programming language. In Chapter 16 “Using PowerShell,” we’ll put it to practical use.
• PowerShell has all the structures you’d expect in a modern programming language. (It should—it borrowed things from just about every language out there!)
• The PowerShell language has some really unusual tricks up its proverbial sleeve, especially in the ways it works with arrays. It also has built-in tools for matching, parsing, and substituting text using regular expression patterns.
• All PowerShell variables are .NET Framework objects, so there are methods and properties that you can manipulate on any variable. This chapter will get you started learning about many ...
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