Question

I would like to insert a soft hyphen between every letter in a word using powershell. for example here is some text:

Thisisatest => T-h-i-s-i-s-a-t-e-s-t

- is a soft hyphen. How might i do this in powershell?

Answer 1

Using .NET methods a little more than canonical PowerShell code, you can write

$word = "Thisisatest"
[System.String]::Join("-", $word.ToCharArray())

and Powershell outputs “T-h-i-s-i-s-a-t-e-s-t”

EDIT: For a true soft hyphen, and using this answer on Unicode in PowerShell, I would change the second line to

[System.String]::Join([char] 0x00AD, $word.ToCharArray())