Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Apr 25 15:39:12 CDT 2014
Hi John: It seems the the variables have to be clearly pre-defined, in the powershell and just establishing a variable by applying a value type to the variable is not enough...actually that is a lot better the loosey-goosey methods used to define variables like in JavaScript or the old versions of command DOS. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bartow" <jbartow at winhaven.net> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 11:24:52 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Powershel script help I tried setting $remaining to an integer: $remaining = $xml.RegistrationConfig.DaysRemaining -as [int] But that didn't work. Paul's suggestion of setting the variable value to another variable defined as integer worked out though: $remainingint = $remaining -as [int] So either my syntax in the first attempt is incorrect or setting the variable when pulling data from the xml field's data just doesn't work. I sometimes, well most of the time, think in VB terms and PS isn't the same animal. John B _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com