Read multiple values from console

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Hi New to Powershell here, trying to fumble my way through…

I’m trying to write a script to output the last 3 eventlog items from named servers to an HTML file.

I want to have a prompt ask the user which servers they want to query. I can’t quite work out how to handle multiple inputs, I think I need an array but not sure how to set it up. Can anyone give me any pointers?

TIA

Doug

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The BEST way is to let PowerShell do it. At the top of your script:

[CmdletBinding()]
Param(
  [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)][string[]]$ComputerName
)

If someone runs the script, they’ll be prompted for the computer name. They can keep entering them, one at a time, hitting Enter on an empty prompt to indicate they’re done. The nice thing is that they can bypass the prompt by running the script and providing a -ComputerName parameter up front.

This remains consistent with the way the shell works for all commands.

3

Great, thank you Don. I’ll play around with that now :slight_smile:

4

Works a charm, thanks again!