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Reverse text line
Advanced Reverse a line of text without the use of Array’s Reverse method, Array indices, Array notation, pipelines or loop statements. Click the icons below for answer and explanation. . <span...
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Format elements
Advanced Given an Array of at least 2 elements, return a new Array of formatted elements without using array indices, pipelines or loop statements. Click the icons below for answer and explanation. ....
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Private variable
Advanced Attain the value of a private variable declared in a child scope from that scope’s own child scope. Click the icons below for answer and explanation. . <span style="color:...
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Enum’s numeric values
Advanced Without any loop statements or pipelines, get the numeric values of an Enum (such as IO.FileAttributes) in 1 statement. Click the icons below for answer and explanation. . <span...
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Find an unused drive letter
Your task is to write the shortest code to find one of the unused drive letters (excluding a,b and c). PowerShell’s default aliases are allowed. You have one week. Answers should be posted as a...
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Convert a string to a character array
Hello everyone! We are back with a series of Brain Teasers. In the next 3 weeks we will publish one teaser per week. It will run until Friday and the winner will be announced on the next Monday, taking...
View ArticleAssign a list of processes to a variable and output it to the console
Hello everyone! The Brain Teaser series continues. First, we need to announce the winner of the previous brain teaser. We got a lot of answers, but only three of them fulfilled all requirements ( the...
View ArticleFind a list of all IP addresses assigned to the local system
Hello everyone! The Brain Teaser series continues. First, we would like to announce the winner of the previous brain teaser. We got a few answers in which many of them have a command length of 8. The...
View ArticleOutput only the palindromic words
Hello everyone! The Brain Teaser series continues. First, we would like to announce the winner of the previous brain teaser. We got a number of very interesting and creative solutions. The shortest...
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Get the last modified date and time
Before we dive into this week’s teaser we would like to announce the winner of last week’s challenge. Ioan Corcodel, congratulations! You take with you a copy of Microsoft Windows PowerShell 3.0 First...
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Brain teaser – one way to solve it
This is the command I had initially in mind when writing the last modified time teaser: ls $pshome\powershell.exe|date I also had this one, which is shorter: ps -id $pid|gi|date But I specifically...
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Converting to size units – our solution and the winner
The task was to convert a number to the size units without using the built-in multipliers. Thank you all for taking the time to participate in this teaser. Now, let’s present the solution we had in...
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