Learn PowerShell: Episode 6, Primitives + Important Types + new
Channel: ABMedia
Date: 2021-08-08

We're nearing the end of the PowerShell video series now! In this episode, we're going to take a look at some very important types, as well as very fundamental and special types known as "primitives".

The primitives are types treated specially by the "CLR" (Core Language Runtime), as explored in the video, and are the fundamental building blocks every other object is then made out from. There are two actual forms of primitives that matter for your time in PowerShell, and that is numbers and booleans.

We explore both of these types and all of the main functions you can perform on them, as they are a very important part of PowerShell. Things like performing maths on numbers, or retrieving certain Boolean objects, all important tools that can be used.

After that, we move on from primitives to some important types. These types aren't considered "primitive" by PowerShell exactly, but they are extremely important and used very commonly, so we also take a look at how to perform common actions on them. The first important type is a "string". We're already a little familiar with strings, in particular how to create them, but there is much more to strings that we haven't learnt about yet, that gets explored in this episode.

We also take a look at the new type we've never seen before, called "arrays". What's interesting about this type is we've actually been using it loads throughout the entire series without even realizing it! Very intriguing... I take a look at what it is, how you can create it, how you can work with it, and much more, all coming up on this new episode of the PowerShell video series!

Chapters:

0:00 Primitives
3:32 Numbers
7:34 Booleans
8:32 Char
9:16 Strings
14:55 Arrays
16:50 Other types
21:09 Using Arrays
29:00 Strings as Arrays

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