Chapter 2. PowerShell Peculiarities

In many ways, PowerShell is different (as a language) than other traditional programming languages. Some of PowerShell's peculiarities will be presented in this chapter, as well as some guidance on how to avoid common pitfalls. Here are the topics we'll cover in this chapter:

• Strings (quoting, substitution, and escaping)
• Function return values
• Pipeline processing
• Error handling and non-terminating errors