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using namespace System.Collections.Generic
<#
Using: Pwsh 7
Related:
    For parsing HTML with CSS Selector queries, see this template: <https://gist.github.com/ninmonkey/17f6a1f5b28249b6cb2ba8bc746ae4fb>
#>


function FindArchivedUrl {
    <#

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About

I'm experimenting with collisions for the Env var RFC: PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC#384

Cases

Case: fails as expected

$h1 = @{ "path"      = 'foo\bar' }
$h2 = @{ "path`u{0}" = '' }

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function InvokeWingetInstall { 
    <# 
    .synopsis
        example of using native commands with dynamic conditions. 
    .example  
    # example commands: Use -TestOnly and -Verbose to see cli arguments, without invoking it.
    
    InvokeWingetInstall -Verbose -Package 'Microsoft.PowerBI' -TestOnly -Silent
    VERBOSE: install --id Microsoft.PowerBI /silent
    

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# I'm explicitly unloading the module for each test
Remove-Module ImportExcel -ea 'ignore'
(Get-Module ImportExcel).IterCommands.count
# out: 0

Remove-Module ImportExcel -ea 'ignore'
(Get-Module ImportExcel).count 
# out: 0

Remove-Module ImportExcel -ea 'ignore'

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About

Compare if NaN fails a round trip in Powershell or when using System.Text.Json

Ran using: pwsh.exe 7.4. context

Tests

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SVG's support CSS variables.

CSS variables

Instead of hard coding values in the whole file:

<path fill="#123456" .... >

You can declare a variable named --color-main and resuse it.

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@'
There's a bunch of literals added in 6+
7.1 added
> using a type suffix on a hex literal now returns a signed value of that type

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_numeric_literals?view=powershell-7.5
'@


100 - 93.79         | ty 'i int, i d'

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$originalMessage = "hi 🐒 world"

$enc     = [Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding('utf-8')
$bytes   = $enc.GetBytes( $originalMessage)
$hexStr  = [Convert]::ToHexString( $bytes )
$asBytes = [Convert]::FromHexString( $hexStr )

$roundTrip = $enc.GetString( $AsBytes )

[pscustomobject]@{

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# This is a ps5 + ps7 script
# ps5 writes errors when PBI refreshes, ps7 either never does, or its much, much more rare

$dest    = 'C:\Users\cppmo_000\AppData\Local\Temp\cults.csv'
$iter = 0
while($true) {
   $iter++
   $Last    = [datetime]::Now
   $content = w32tm /stripchart /computer:time.google.com /samples:1 /dataonly
   Add-Content -Path $dest -Value (

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Sometimes line continuations are quite permissive

Starting code

[datetime]::ParseExact( 'septiembre', 'MMMM', (get-culture 'es') ).ToString('MMMM', (get-culture 'es'))

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