Vista - Concatenate variables with numbers

Hello everyone,

I'm having some issues getting a variable valued the way I want it.
I'm using the get-date cmdlet to get the current date from the system,
I'm only concerned with the year and month, but I want to set the
variable to last month.

In the case of March 2008, I can easily set my variable to February
2008 like this:

(get-date -uformat "%Y%m") -1

The problem is that if it were to be January 2008, using the above, my
variable would be valued to this:

200800

Shouldn't it know that this is a date since I directly used the get-
date cmdlet?

So, I've tried making the value returned from get-date a string like
this:

((get-date).toString('yyyy'))-1

The only problem is that when I go to concatenate it with a month
value, it always adds the two numeric values so instead of getting a
variable valued like this:

200712

I get one valued like this:

2019

I have searched and can not find a way to concatenate the value of the
strings without adding them. I've tried the following:

$YM = $MoveYear + $MoveMonth
$YM = $MoveYear += $MoveMonth

Both give the same result.

Thank you.

This may be simpler ...

(get-date "1/1/2008").AddMonths(-1).Month
(get-date "1/1/2008").AddMonths(-1).Year

--
Jon


"Orrin" <oedenfield@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for your help.

Using this method to set the dates of the variables still yield me two
variables that when I concatenate them I get 2019.

Also will this method work when get-date returns a date like
01/01/2010 ? I should have clarified; I am using this in a script
that I want to have setup so that no matter what the year is, if get-
date returns a MM of 01, then it will be able to set a variable as
yyyyMM (December of the previous year). For some reason when
Powershell is returning a DATE is not letting me subtract 1 month and
get December of the previous year (it will easily show a month of 00
instead).

I just tried:

(get-date).AddMonths(-1) -uformat "%Y%m"
and
(get-date -uformat "%Y%m").AddMonths(-1)

and they returned errors.

I must be missing something.

Orrin


On Mar 5, 2:21 pm, "Jon" <Email_Addr...@xxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Orrin,

It doesn't work because the -uformat is a parameter for get-date and for
AddMonths() method.

Try this instead:

PS > (get-date).AddMonths(-1).ToString("yyyyMM")
200802


Another way to get it is with the .NET string format operator:

PS > "{0:yyyyMM}" -f (get-date).AddMonths(-1)
200802



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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

"Orrin" <oedenfield@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Shay's given you the solution, to which I'd only add that the reason you got
2019 was that you were adding 2 integers 2007 and 12. To concatenate, you'd
cast to strings eg

eg compare these two

2007 + 12
[string]2007 + [string]12

--
Jon

That is it! Thank you so much! I knew there had to be a simple way
to to do it.

Orrin

On Mar 5, 3:36 pm, Shay Levi <n...@xxxxxx> wrote:

Thank you for your help Jon. I really appreciate it.

Orrin

On Mar 5, 3:59 pm, "Jon" <Email_Addr...@xxxxxx> wrote: