Hoping someone can help me out here. I’ve got the following script: cls $a = "red","green","blue" $b = "purple","green","blue" write-host “This is how these arrays compare” -foregroundcolor yellow compare $a $b -includeequal write-host “” write-host ‘These are the values that $a has exclusively…

There are some deeply important differences between those commands, and those differences lie at the heart of some of the shells most important concepts. It’d be worth picking up “Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches” to really work through that. If the on screen output is literally all y…

We use the following trick to use color without using Write-host $ui = (Get-Host).UI.RawUI $ui.ForegroundColor = "red"; Write-Output "This text will be red" $ui.ForegroundColor = "white"; Actually, the whole prompt will be red after line 2 and white after line 4.

David, try the following. I corrected the match criteria in you Where statement (it had a space between the less than and the equals). Also, I piped your first compare to Out-Default. (Don, correct my explanation here if I butcher it) The Out-Default is basically causing PowerShell to wait until…

I can’t get the forum to post my output correctly, but you can see for yourself that it works.

Don’t get in the habit of using Write-host. You will regret it later on. Stick with Write-Output and if you need to change colors use the UI.RawUI method. IMO script colors aren’t worth the headache. If I want an interface for a script I’ll use a GUI.

Thanks, Sylvain. That trick prove useful, I’m sure.

Thanks, Kevyn. That “= >” was an odd typo and I’m not sure how it snuck into my copy/paste. “Out-Default” was what I was looking for. I’ve run into other issues that required I use that, though I don’t recall all the details at the moment (it had to do with a looping query with a “select” statement…

Thanks guys, but I can’t say I agree. I find color to be useful. Here’s a post I wrote on the subject on a blog I keep (readership probably zero, lol!) [image] Spruce Up Your Scripts With Menus and Color: Part III Links for: Part I, Part II In this final installment of our series we wil…

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miracles1315 September 19, 2017, 10:58am 5

My Output:

This is how these arrays compare

InputObject SideIndicator

green ==
blue ==
purple =>
red <=

These are the values that $a has exclusively

InputObject SideIndicator

red <=

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