PowerShell Operators Comparison Operators
Example
PowerShell comparison operators are comprised of a leading dash (-) followed by a name (eq for equal, gt for greater than, etc...).
Names can be preceded by special characters to modify the behavior of the operator:
i # Case-Insensitive Explicit (-ieq)
c # Case-Sensitive Explicit (-ceq)
Case-Insensitive is the default if not specified, ("a" -eq "A") same as ("a" -ieq "A").
Simple comparison operators:
2 -eq 2 # Equal to (==)
2 -ne 4 # Not equal to (!=)
5 -gt 2 # Greater-than (>)
5 -ge 5 # Greater-than or equal to (>=)
5 -lt 10 # Less-than (<)
5 -le 5 # Less-than or equal to (<=)
String comparison operators:
"MyString" -like "*String" # Match using the wildcard character (*)
"MyString" -notlike "Other*" # Does not match using the wildcard character (*)
"MyString" -match "$String^" # Matches a string using regular expressions
"MyString" -notmatch "$Other^" # Does not match a string using regular expressions
Collection comparison operators:
"abc", "def" -contains "def" # Returns true when the value (right) is present
# in the array (left)
"abc", "def" -notcontains "123" # Returns true when the value (right) is not present
# in the array (left)
"def" -in "abc", "def" # Returns true when the value (left) is present
# in the array (right)
"123" -notin "abc", "def" # Returns true when the value (left) is not present
# in the array (right)
