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intermediate PowerShell (use variables, common PowerShell built-in cmdlets, conditional and loop statements)
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read text files • edit text using replace operations • regex patterns including lookaround • use of the switch statement to modify text • write to text files
Fernando Corrales
1 week · 4-6 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE
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As a PowerShell developer, your critical mission is to help XYZ Services company, the consulting and outsourcing firm you work for, avoid payroll delays after a massive failure in its IT infrastructure. To meet a requirement in the input process to payroll, the HR department needs an update to the state field in the source file to be changed from the employee’s state of residence to the state of the office they report to. Using PowerShell best practices, you’ll write a script that uses the switch statement, PowerShell cmdlets, and advanced regex expressions to read the input file, return a list of the unique states within the file, replace the state value according to the predefined conditions—and keep those paychecks coming.

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Fernando Corrales
Fernando Corrales is a cloud engineer with several years of IT experience in multinational companies. He’s worked extensively with VMware products, focusing on private cloud automation with PowerCLI and PowerShell, in addition to delivering PowerShell training for some of his recent employers. Fernando holds several technical degrees from the Tecnológico de Costa Rica and has a personal blog: fercorrales.com.

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