Question

I am writing a script which automatically provisions users in groups when the request is sent off. I am running a check to see if it is in a specific group out of a list or contains a phrase such as HDS. I cannot currently get the “contains” command working quite right for me. Here is what I got:

$memberof = get-QADMemberOf -Identity tpatry
if($memberof -contains "HDS" -eq $true){
Write-Host "User is already a member of one of the Job Roles"}

When I run this:

$memberof = get-QADMemberOf tpatry
Write-Host $memberof

I get these groups that I am part of. This is what $memberof returns:

USERS\Domain Users USERS\CCNet-HDS-ADMIN USERS\HDS-CP-STUDENT-ACL USERS\ME-513 USERS\HDS-IT-FTE-ACL USERS\MNE-STUDENTS-O USERS\HDS-ADMIN

When I run this, just gives me a new prompt to run another prompt to input my next command.

Answer 1

I’ll have to look up the documentation on -contains. Seems like I’ve seen it before, yet I always overlook, or forget, that one.

Don’t know if the main issue has anything to do with what get-QADMemberOf is returning? I don’t have that function available to me, checking online looks like it might return a collection/list of objects, instead of a string? If its not a string, you may need to iterate through each item in the collection at test for the value your looking for.

$groups = get-QADMemberOf -identity tpatry
foreach($group in $groups)
{

  # pipe one of them to gm (e.g. $group | gm) to get a list of properties

  if ($group.Name -like "*HDS*" -eq $true) 
  { 
       write-host "found" 
  }
}

If the return value IS a string, you can try the -like operator:

$str = "this is a test"
if ( $str -like "*test*" -eq $true )
{
   write-host "found"
}

We can also drop to C# as needed:

$str = "this is a test"
if ($str.Contains("test") -eq $true )
{
    write-host "found"
}