Powershell code help

Emp_Fab · November 2019

@notanon ;; - I've edited it to remove the check for leading zeroes so it's good to go. Just one last thing... the final output $MyVar - is that a string variable or an integer ? Reason being it needs to be used further on in the big script and I don't know if Powershell borks at a string when it's expecting an integer.

notanon · November 2019

@Emp_Fab No problem, my background is C based so I need the practice :-) . I've used different scripting languages but powershell is the strangest for me.

It is returning a string but you can use the [int]::Parse method as used in the code above to return an integer (rename the function to something more apt and remove String).

LoFi · November 2019

Purely as an aside, humans are terrible at coming up with random numbers. One of the issues is that we will deliberately avoid repeated digits far more than is statistically valid, so a lack of repeated digits in a series of numbers (or a long random number) is an indication that the number wasn't randomly generated.

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