PSHelpFunctions

Functions to make things easier to remember, conversions and other helpful stuff!

Installation

Install-Module -Name PSHelpFunctions

Available functions

Remove-BadStringCharacters

Removes bad character so it is easier to use within script, for example I am swedish and we have äöå alot in our language, this converts äöå to aoa instead.

Remove-BadStringCharacters("Hej är du hemma eller åker du bil?")

# OUTPUT
"Hej ar du hemma eller aker du bil?"

Get-ValueWithinString

Find a value within a larger string, for example if you want to retrieve a a code within a large string set (Regex helpfunction)

$String = "Every email is sent with this text, here is a code: 23498 please use this"
Get-ValueWithinString -InputString $String -Begin "code: " -End " please"

# OUTPUT
"23498"

Convert-UTF8ToString

There are some cases when PowerShell will give you wierd UTF8 Data when retrieving API requests and Content-Type charset=utf8 is not working.
This solves that problem, mostly used if you have some sort of non-english language.

$String = "Powerlänk AB"
Convert-UTF8ToString($String)

# OUTPUT
"Powerlänk AB"

Get-ValidDate

Sometimes you retrieve wierd dates, this uses the powershell date conversion to convert the date to a valid datetime object and returns it.
It does ignore the date if it is not parsable.

$Date = "2023-01-22"
Get-ValidDate($Date)

# OUTPUT
"2023-01-22T00:00:00"

Remove-SpecialCharacters

Removes all special characters, like . - #¤%"#¤&/, basically anything that is not a character or a number

$String = "asidfar----srtjrstjrstjt....j"
Remove-SpecialCharacters($String)

# OUTPUT
"asidfarsrtjrstjrstjtj"