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• 09-25-2009, 7:12 AM

  rkr31 Joined on 05-01-2007, 6:15 AM Posts 30

  Cannot manipulate get-childitem variable Reply Contact Hi I think that this is probably powershell specific rather than just to do with IIS, but im hoping that you will be able to help anyhow.  I have several sites running on iis.  Site id's are numeric and in order (the first site id is 0001, second is 0002 etc...).  I want to return the last site id, increment it and then add the next site in sequence (so if the last site was 0023 then i will get that value, add 1 and then add the next site with an id of 0024). The line below gets the last id, but if i try to manipulate the data in $test it gives me all sorts of oddness.  Im guessing that it's just because it's not a string variable, but to be honest im not really sure.  Any ideas?  $test = Get-ChildItem IIS:\Sites|select-object -last 1|format-list id

• 09-25-2009, 1:58 PM

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  JeongHwan Joined on 12-14-2004, 11:43 AM Redmond, WA Posts 33

  Re: Cannot manipulate get-childitem variable Reply Contact You cannot use the object value as a site id value as you thought. :-) Here is one of the way to use the ID as a number value. $test = (Get-ChildItem IIS:\Sites|select-object -last 1).id    FYI, here is the way to check the data type. PS IIS:\sites> (Get-ChildItem IIS:\Sites|select-object -last 1|format-list id | select id).gettype() IsPublic IsSerial Name                                     BaseType -------- -------- ----                                     -------- True     True     Object[]                                 System.Array PS IIS:\sites> ((Get-ChildItem IIS:\Sites|select-object -last 1).id).gettype() IsPublic IsSerial Name                                     BaseType -------- -------- ----                                     -------- True     True     Int64                                    System.ValueType Jeong Hwan Kim