{"id":6941,"date":"2015-03-31T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/03\/31\/powertip-create-array-in-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:04","slug":"powertip-create-array-in-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-create-array-in-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Create Array in PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to easily create an array.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, Can I use Windows PowerShell to create an array of strings and avoid typing quotation marks
           around all the strings?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Instead of creating an array, such as this: $array = “a”,”b”,”c”,”d”,”e”,”f”,”g”,”h”, use a single string,
           and split it at the comma. It will be much less typing, and a whole lot faster. Here is an example:<\/p>\n

$array = 'a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h'.Split(',')<\/p>\n

\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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