{"id":5191,"date":"2015-07-04T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/07\/04\/powertip-multiply-value-in-variable-and-store-results\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:47:08","slug":"powertip-multiply-value-in-variable-and-store-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-multiply-value-in-variable-and-store-results\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Multiply Value in Variable and Store Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to multiply the value stored in a variable and store the results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to multiply the value of a variable and store the results in the same variable?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;Use the *= operator, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">PS C:&gt; $a = 2<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">PS C:&gt; $a *= 3<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">PS C:&gt; $a<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">6<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to multiply the value stored in a variable and store the results. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to multiply the value of a variable and store the results in the same variable? &nbsp;Use the *= operator, for example: PS C:&gt; $a = 2 PS C:&gt; $a *= 3 PS C:&gt; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,398,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-numbers","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to multiply the value stored in a variable and store the results. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to multiply the value of a variable and store the results in the same variable? &nbsp;Use the *= operator, for example: PS C:&gt; $a = 2 PS C:&gt; $a *= 3 PS C:&gt; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}