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You’re a PowerShell developer working for XYZ Services Company, a consulting and outsourcing firm that recently experienced a massive failure in its IT infrastructure. While it’s working on getting the environment back up and running, you’ve been given the critical, time-sensitive task of helping avoid payroll delays. The good news is the company’s employee directory has already been extracted. The bad news is it’s been saved as plain text files, a hard-to-work-with format for payroll purposes. Applying PowerShell best practices, you’ll write scripts that parse text data and convert it into objects that are in a payroll-manageable format.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
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This liveProject is for technology administrators and intermediate-level PowerShell users who want to learn or expand their text and string parsing skills. To begin these liveProjects you’ll need to be familiar with the following:
TOOLS- Intermediate PowerShell 7
- Visual Studio Code with PowerShell extension
- MS Excel or any CSV viewer
- An HTML editor
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll learn techniques for parsing text with PowerShell and converting strings into PowerShell objects.
- Use PowerShell operators to modify text strings
- Use loops and conditional statements to sequentially process objects from a collection
- Build a PowerShell custom object and use the Add-Member cmdlet to add properties to it
- Export objects to CSV format, generate multiple output files, and distribute the objects based on a given condition
- Work with simple regex expressions
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