Vista - not using variables

$today=get-date
write-host "`nToday Date :" $today

the above works fine.

However i wish to shorten the code to :

write-host "`nToday Date :" + get-date

but i could not get-date ...in vbscript we can use & to concantenate, pls
advice

"IT Staff" <jkklim@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> $today=get-date
> write-host "`nToday Date :" $today
>
> the above works fine.
>
> However i wish to shorten the code to :
>
> write-host "`nToday Date :" + get-date
>
> but i could not get-date ...in vbscript we can use & to concantenate, pls
> advice

Once you have started a string like this, the PowerShell parser is operation
in expression mode so it won't interpret "get-date" as go execute the
command get-date. You can instruct the parser to begin a new parser context
to get it to intrepret get-date as a command like so:

"`nToday Date :" + (get-date)

But another, more terse way to do this is to do the expansion within the
string using a subexpression like so:

"`nToday Date : $(get-date)"

--
Keith