Join several strings with a separator.

PowerShell: The join operator returns one string from an input collection.

PowerShell snippet.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
Set-StrictMode -Version Latest
@('red','green','blue') -join ' / '

Expected output EXAMPLE

red / green / blue

Details

Requires PowerShell 7. Save as snippet.ps1 and run pwsh -NoProfile -File snippet.ps1. Tested on Linux; these examples use portable paths and cmdlets. The join operator returns one string from an input collection.

✓ Verified

Tested on Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS · · PowerShell 7.6.6 · powershell 7.6.6-1.deb

Test inputs, results and environment

The exact published code ran in a dedicated Linux test container with prepared inputs. Snippet process uid 65534 with a read-only root filesystem and temporary working files. Networking disabled. Fixtures and output records are isolated from the application database. Testing covers this example and its stated checks, not every input, operating system, or runtime version. The Linux container shares its host's kernel; this is not a native Windows test.

Architecture / host kernel
x86_64 / 6.18.54.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
Snippet identity / locale
uid=65534, gid=65534 (unprivileged process) / C.UTF-8
Interpreter invocation
pwsh -NoLogo -NoProfile -NonInteractive -File snippet.ps1
Container image ID
sha256:ec91410a8f6ec3e985830b5e3a0560306d36f8c1c5ccd91a6699abe707123fa3
Code SHA-256
17f515f73db65c09b9922812785df2e82f354a8b0925cf7b9cf3ec4cac8a6c8a
Dependencies
powershell 7.6.6-1.deb

Test input setup

These are the prepared inputs used by the test harness. See Details above for the prerequisites and how to run this example.

# No input files required.

Observed standard output

red / green / blue

Exit code: 0. Standard error: empty. Validation: Exact stdout comparison. System-dependent values above are one recorded run.