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Alright, let's kind of recap what we looked at in this module.

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The operators that we looked at are key elements of the PowerShell language.

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These are things that you are going to have to know and

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it will just become second nature.

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The more you use PowerShell, the more you use these operators,

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the easier that will be.

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Be sure to grab the course downloads.

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Now, even though I didn't do any live demo,

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all of the demonstrations I had in my slides is in the download course files

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so you can load it up and you can copy and paste and you can try these

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commands for yourself so that you can see how they work.

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I encourage you and stress the importance of understanding how

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these things work interactively in the console.

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Once you use them in the console and build up that muscle memory,

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they'll become much easier to use when you get to scripting.

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And keep in mind that many of these operators are designed

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and were introduced to make it easier in longer pipelined or

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complex pipelined expression,

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but that does not mean you have to write things in

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a complex pipeline expression.

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You may find it easier to take a process that you want to do and break it

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down into multiple steps so you have a bunch of single,

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simple processes,

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maybe saved results or variables and then reuse those

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variables in a subsequent command.

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However, if you need to do something that's a little more complicated,

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these new operators or even any of the operators

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should make that a little bit easier.

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Keep in mind that when you get to PowerShell scripting,

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even though you can use these operators,

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especially some of the newer operators like the ternary operators,

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you may find it easier to use scripting alternatives like an if else statement.

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The ternary operator if else will ultimately do the same thing,

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but looking at one in a piece of code or a script file may make more

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sense to you and it may be clearer if you see if else in a script

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file versus the cryptic ternary operator.

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Personally,

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I think the ternary operator is fine if I'm doing something

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interactively in the console because I know what I'm typing.

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If I'm writing a PowerShell script,

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I'm going to continue to use if and else if for my expression

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because I think that it's easier to understand.

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Many of these operators, especially as you get more complex or start doing more,

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for example, like with the logical operators,

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it may not technically be required, but group with parentheses for clarity.

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You need to make sure that you understand what you want PowerShell to do

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because if you don't understand what you want PowerShell to do,

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PowerShell won't be able to do what you want it to do.

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Group with parentheses, and if you have a complex expression,

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build it one little piece at a time so you can make sure that

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you're getting the true/false or whatever the results that you

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need before moving on to the next part.

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And then lastly, if you haven't picked up on this already, please read the help.

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All of the operators that I've talked about have documentation.

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So search the about topics, read them, look at the help,

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look at the examples in the cmdlets that might be using this operator.

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I obviously can't teach you everything in this course.

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The best that I can hope for is to give you an introduction,

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show you what you can expect,

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but I have to count on you to pick up the ball from the help

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documentation and read it to reinforce these concepts that I'm

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showing you and then doing it yourself,

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so that's really the best way that you can learn.

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Look at my examples, read the help,

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and then do it yourself and then repeat this process.

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The more and more that you do that,

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the easier it will be for you to learn the PowerShell.

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Alright, so I think we have probably really spun your head around in this module,

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especially when we get to some of these later PowerShell 7 operators.

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Please go out, get some fresh air, stretch your legs,

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fill up your drinks, and then come back, and let's learn more about the PowerShell 7 language.