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PowerShell PowerTip: Customizing your prompt

I've been taking a break from the blog for a while due to some personal reasons, but I had a few people ask me about my PowerShell prompt recently. (image) I like extra horizontal space, so I removed the path from the prompt and put it in the window title bar. I also just display the current time in the prompt ...

Regular Expressions (REGEX): Grouping & [RegEx]

Welcome back to the RegEx crash course. Last time we talked about the basic symbols we plan to use as our foundation. This week, we will be learning a new way to leverage our patterns for data extraction and how to rip our extracted data into pieces we care about. [RegEx] The  data type has some cool static members,  but we're mostly going...