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As a PowerShell developer, your critical mission is to help XYZ Services company, the consulting and outsourcing firm you work for, avoid payroll delays after a massive failure in its IT infrastructure. To meet a requirement in the input process to payroll, the HR department needs an update to the state field in the source file to be changed from the employee’s state of residence to the state of the office they report to. Using PowerShell best practices, you’ll write a script that uses the switch statement, PowerShell cmdlets, and advanced regex expressions to read the input file, return a list of the unique states within the file, replace the state value according to the predefined conditions—and keep those paychecks coming.
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
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll learn how to replace strings based on predefined conditions.
- Use the switch statement to replace existing text with new values, depending on the value of a given variable or expression
- Extract a list of unique values using the Select-String and the Select-Object cmdlets
- Work with advanced regex expressions, including lookbehind
- Use loops and conditional statements to sequentially process objects from a collection
- Use the replace operator to modify text strings
- Use Get-Content and Set-Content cmdlets
- Read and write text to a file using PowerShell
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Conditionally Replace Text project for free
Conditionally Replace Text project for free
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Conditionally Replace Text project for free
