RDP File Generation/Use of HERE-Strings

re: RDP File Generation/Use of HERE-Strings

EverydayNerd — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:31:41 GMT

Hey - Glad you liked the script! I was like a giddy school girl when I did this! Pretty cool stuff! :) Cheers~

re: RDP File Generation/Use of HERE-Strings

PowerShellTeam — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:31:07 GMT

@Nerd

Yeah - that was very cool. Great thinking.

jps

Splitting HERE-Strings

Paul Chavez — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:59:16 GMT

Is it appropriate to use HERE strings to setup a list of computers internal to the script.

The problem was when I split the string on newline into an array of strings there was an extra character at the end of each string in the array and I couldn't figure out why.

I ended up moving the list into an external text file that I read in during processing, which may be better overall.

My question now is why didn't the split work correctly, should I have split on a different character?

re: RDP File Generation/Use of HERE-Strings

PowerShellTeam — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:06:27 GMT

> My question now is why didn't the split work correctly, should I have split on a different character?

Post the code and I'll take a look.

jps

re: RDP File Generation/Use of HERE-Strings

Paul Chavez — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:38:21 GMT

It occurs in this snippet. The original case was taking a list of urls and building a query statement for logparser.

It outputs to the console as expected. It's only when examining the variable in the PowershellPlus debugger that I "see" the extra character at the end of the $item variable.

Even though it looks ok on the screen when passed into the logparser com object it failed. I think if I just used the resulting query string as a parameter to logparser.exe it worked.

$list = @"

First

Second

Third

$items = $list.Split("`n")

$newstring = "SELECT "

foreach ($item in $items)

{

$newstring += "$item, "

}

$newstring

re: RDP File Generation/Use of HERE-Strings

Joakim E — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:01:38 GMT

This probably misses the point but he could possibly use the free and great Royal TS http://code4ward.net/CS2/Default.aspx. It's a lifesaver when it comes to managing large amount of servers over RDP. I for one can't live without it anymore.

re: RDP File Generation/Use of HERE-Strings

Chris Federico — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:09:52 GMT

The only time I seen someone use a here-string was in Ed Wilson's Microsoft Powershell book. He uses it a lot for Help functions that display syntax .

P.S I'm not trying to see the book but it is very good !

Good Blog!

re: RDP File Generation/Use of HERE-Strings

bob developer — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:34:56 GMT

Having been forced to do a decent amount of work in php I was familiar with the here-strings but not a fan. The additional power in posh sold me on the concept. I (now) love here-strings for generating things like email alerts; and shudder to think what life would be like without them. ;)

on a completely unrelated note, stackoverflow (a joelonsoftware/codinghorror collaboration) is open to the public, already some decent (and some not so) powershell questions and answers

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/powershell

re: RDP File Generation/Use of HERE-Strings

Trac3r726 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:24:11 GMT

Great post i will tryout the here-string. I completely agree with your comments on the naming conventions. that will make life alot easier.

re: RDP File Generation/Use of HERE-Strings

Paul Chavez — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:26:56 GMT

Disregard my post about the "mystery" character.

Further investigation shows it is a problem with the Powershell Plus editor.

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