Yet again, long time no post!
.net Format Strings are very useful when it comes to taking control over the output of your scripts. e.g.:
[code language=”powershell”]
‘{0:t}’ -f (Get-Date)
#output: h:mm tt
‘{0:n1}’ -f 2.45
#output: 2.5
[/code]
The problem with those Format Strings is, that hardly anyone can remember them. While there they are thoroughly documented and several nice folks have created cheat-sheets (e.g. here), I thought it would be nice to be able to get (at least the most common) Format Strings for a given input automatically along with the respective outputs within PowerShell.
The function returns output for Integer, Double, and DateTime input. You can download Get-FormatStrings from my GithHub repository or just grab the code below:
https://gist.github.com/25ec562a8bb21b1899044ca7913ae7ef
