Issue with Insert function

[grokkit]

Hi,

I am having hard time using the insert function in powershell inside a loop. Currently I am trying to Insert string to existing string at particular index values. Here is code for the same.

PowerShell

$data = "admin" $count = 0 for($i=0; $i -lt $data.Length -1 ; $i++ ){     $data = $data.Insert($i,"XX")     Write-Host "HERE" } Write-Host $data

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$data = "admin" $count = 0 for($i=0; $i -lt $data.Length -1 ; $i++ ){     $data = $data.Insert($i,"XX")     Write-Host "HERE" }   Write-Host $data

But it goes into infinite-loop and prints “HERE” constantly. My end goal is to add string to existing string at particular index with some condition( But for now I am trying to achieve this to all characters)

Any suggestion/approach to achieve this are appriciated

Thanks

• This topic was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by grokkit. Reason: code formatting - please read the guide

[Matt Bloomfield Participant Topics: 4 Replies: 427 Points: 756Rank: Major Contributor]

Your problem is due to the fact that the length is increasing with each interation so $i will always be less than $data.length -1 so it loops forever.

You need to calculate the final length of the string and stop there, you also need to increment by the number of characters in your string to be inserted rather than increment by 1 ($i++).

Something like this:

PowerShell

$data = 'admin' $insertString = 'XX' $finalLength = $data.Length + ($insertString.Length * $data.Length -1) for ($i = 1; $i -lt $finalLength; $i = $i + $insertString.Length + 1 ) { $data = $data.Insert($i,$insertString) } Write-Host $data

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$data = 'admin'   $insertString = 'XX'   $finalLength = $data.Length + ($insertString.Length * $data.Length -1)   for ($i = 1; $i -lt $finalLength; $i = $i + $insertString.Length + 1 ) {       $data = $data.Insert($i,$insertString)   }   Write-Host $data

 

[Doug Maurer Participant Topics: 9 Replies: 707 Points: 2,842Rank: Community Hero]

Why are we doing a loop at all? If you are

trying to Insert string to existing string at particular index values

what part of that suggests a loop?

PowerShell

"existing string".Insert(8," i was inserted") existing i was inserted string

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"existing string".Insert(8," i was inserted")   existing i was inserted string

[Matt Bloomfield Participant Topics: 4 Replies: 427 Points: 756Rank: Major Contributor]

Doug Maurer wrote:

Why are we doing a loop at all?

Because OP said

Dave1185 wrote:

My end goal is to add string to existing string at particular index with some condition( But for now I am trying to achieve this to all characters)

My interpretation of that together with his original code was that he wanted to insert the string after each character.

[Dave1185 Participant Topics: 4 Replies: 13 Points: 62Rank: Member]

Hello Matt Bloomfield,

Sorry for late reply. You were right, I need to increase the total length to stop infinite loop. That solved the issue. Do you know by any chance, Insert function can throw any errors? because I tried playing around it but there were no exceptions on it.

Thanks

[Matt Bloomfield Participant Topics: 4 Replies: 427 Points: 756Rank: Major Contributor]

According to the documentation it throws two exceptions:

ArgumentNullException
value is null.

ArgumentOutOfRangeException
startIndex is negative or greater than the length of this instance.

PowerShell

try { 'hello'.Insert() } catch { $error[0].Exception } try { 'hello'.Insert(6,' world') } catch { $error[0].Exception }

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try {     'hello'.Insert()   }   catch {     $error[0].Exception }   try {     'hello'.Insert(6,' world')   }   catch {     $error[0].Exception }

 

 

 

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