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Even though we’ve been doing this PowerShell thing awhile, we don’t always write our own solutions. You, like me, just might go looking for someone else’s solution, before spending a few minutes of your own time, writing a solution. I’m guilty. That’s said, there’s nothing wrong with it. Seeing what other people have done is often beneficial to our own solutions. It’s part of why I’ve been blogging since mid 2014; take from me, what helps for you.

There’s a very small function I’m currently writing that needed a feature. That feature, which I couldn’t locate well enough anywhere else, is something I wrote myself. Now that I have my solution, after a small amount of time yesterday, I thought I share it for someone else some day.

I needed to accept a string with or without spaces in it, and ensure each character in the string had a space between it when I was done. This ‘ a bcd ef 12 34 gh i’ needed to be come this ‘a b c d e f 1 2 3 4 g h i’. I opted first, to remove all the spaces, whether there were any or not, and then add a space between each character in the string. In case it’s helpful, I’ve include the few lines of PowerShell I wrote out to get this to suitably work for me. Have a look, and take it if you want it.

Remove-Variable -Name String,NewString -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue; Clear-Host

$String =  ' a          ll the d                ogs are so l o u d 1     2 3'
$String
Pause

$String = $String.Replace(' ','')
$String
Pause

$String.ToCharArray() | ForEach-Object {
    $NewString += "$_ "
}
$NewString

Now, let’s run it.

 a          ll the d                ogs are so l o u d 1     2 3
Press Enter to continue...:
allthedogsaresoloud123
Press Enter to continue...:
a l l t h e d o g s a r e s o l o u d 1 2 3

Perhaps you can tell what I might’ve been dealing with when I was writing this. I was at home. My wife was hosting a Girl Scout get together, and the dogs were being just a touch annoying.