As you may be aware, we posted Practice Events for the 2013 Scripting Games, in an effort to give people an idea of what the events would look like and involve. There’s been a lively discussion in the PowerShell.org forums about the Beginner Practice, so I thought I’d weigh in. Here’s my solution:

Of course, that’s hardly the only way to go about it. I used this approach because it minimizes the use of extra variables, and doesn’t create a script-style approach - it’s a “one-liner,” although I’ve broken it across several physical lines for readability. I think it makes good use of PowerShell’s native ability to deal with multiple objects in a stream - there’s no need for a ForEach loop, here.