{"id":72671,"date":"2015-10-18T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/10\/18\/dude-its-a-stringthe-video\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:34:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:34:52","slug":"dude-its-a-stringthe-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/dude-its-a-stringthe-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Dude It&#8217;s a String&#8212;The Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video to talk about working with strings in Windows PowerShell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk about working with strings&mdash;in particular empty or null strings. I talk about the differences between empty, null, and white space in strings and present two static string methods that are always available to deal with the problem.<\/p>\n<p><b>&nbsp; &nbsp;Note<\/b>&nbsp; For more information on these techniques, see <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/dude-a-string-is-a-string-in-powershell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dude, a String Is a String in PowerShell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[View:https:\/\/youtu.be\/L-JNRLYUKHk:550:0]<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to the video from YouTube if you would like to download it or play it offline in a different video player: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/L-JNRLYUKHk\" target=\"_blank\">Is the string null or empty? by Ed Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I invite you to follow me on <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/scriptingguystwitter\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/scriptingguysfacebook\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>. If you have any questions, send email to me at <a href=\"mailto:scripter@microsoft.com\" target=\"_blank\">scripter@microsoft.com<\/a>, or post your questions on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/scriptingforum\" target=\"_blank\">Official Scripting Guys Forum<\/a>. See you tomorrow. Until then, peace.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video to talk about working with strings in Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk about working with strings&mdash;in particular empty or null strings. I talk about the differences between empty, null, and white space in strings [&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":[3,336,619,61,45],"class_list":["post-72671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-scripting-guy","tag-strings","tag-videos","tag-weekend-scripter","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video to talk about working with strings in Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk about working with strings&mdash;in particular empty or null strings. I talk about the differences between empty, null, and white space in strings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72671","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=72671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72671\/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=72671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}