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Add a calculated property during selection
PowerShell: A calculated property can derive a value while retaining selected original properties.
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Append a line while keeping earlier content
PowerShell: Add-Content appends using an explicitly selected encoding.
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Append an item to a small array
PowerShell: The plus-equals operator builds a new array; use a generic list for repeated large additions.
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Assign a value to a variable
PowerShell: Assign a value to a variable using PowerShell 7.
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Build a mutable generic list
PowerShell: A generic list supports repeated additions without copying an entire array each time.
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Calculate a file’s SHA-256 digest
PowerShell: Get-FileHash hashes bytes without requiring the caller to load the whole file.
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Calculate a simple total
PowerShell: Calculate a simple total using PowerShell 7.
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Capture a command’s success-stream output
PowerShell: Assignment collects output values without requiring text redirection to a file.
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Check a string prefix using ordinal comparison
PowerShell: Supply an explicit comparison rule for protocol identifiers.
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Check a suffix without case sensitivity
PowerShell: Use an ordinal case-insensitive comparison for a known filename extension.
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Check an external process exit status explicitly
PowerShell: LASTEXITCODE reports a native child exit code independently of ordinary PowerShell cmdlet errors.
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Check for a hashtable key before reading it
PowerShell: ContainsKey distinguishes a missing key from a key whose value happens to be null.
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