powershell

[intel2012]

I made a simple powershell number guessing gane with the following code.  I have to add a few things to it.  How do i use the get-date function to time how  long the game takes, and second, I have to create a log and it needs to display:  longest and shortest game time, and number of games played.  the log needs to be displayed in notepad, but update the log within the program.  I would appreciate any help

 

$rand = new-object system.random

$number= $rand.next(0,11)

 

do { $a = read-host -prompt "what number do you choose"

    if ($a -gt $Number) {Write-Host "number is too high"}

elseif ($a -lt $Number) {Write-Host "number is too low"}

elseif ($a -eq $Number) {Write-Host "You did it!! It took you $x tries!"}

else {"You have to guess a number!!!"}

$x = $x + 1

   } while ($a -ne $number)

[juretrn]

i think you have to create two variables, one that updates just once and the other keeps on updating, and substract them.

Sorry, it's been a while since I last worked with Powershell.

[dannytech357]

For the time, use this:

$stopwatch = New-Object System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch$stopwatch.Start()$stopwatch.Stop()Write-Host $stopwatch

And for the log, maybe this?

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/0a6860f5-9b02-4e79-97fe-05829f2c5ab3/open-write-and-close-the-file-using-powershell

[Blake]

For the time, use this:

$stopwatch = New-Object System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch$stopwatch.Start()$stopwatch.Stop()Write-Host $stopwatch.Elapsed

And for the log, maybe this?

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/0a6860f5-9b02-4e79-97fe-05829f2c5ab3/open-write-and-close-the-file-using-powershell

FTFY

 

 

I made a simple powershell number guessing gane with the following code.  I have to add a few things to it.  How do i use the get-date function to time how  long the game takes, and second, I have to create a log and it needs to display:  longest and shortest game time, and number of games played.  the log needs to be displayed in notepad, but update the log within the program.  I would appreciate any help

 

$rand = new-object system.random$number = $rand.next(0,11)$x = 0do{    $a = read-host -prompt "what number do you choose"    if ($a -gt $Number) {        Write-Host "number is too high"    } else {        if ($a -lt $Number) {            Write-Host "number is too low"            } else {                if ($a -eq $Number) {                    Write-Host "You did it!! It took you $x tries!"                    } else {                        "You have to guess a number!!!"                    }                }            }    $x = $x + 1    } while ($a -ne $number)

Depends on how you want the log to function, do you want it to be a high level summary? number of games play, average time taken etc? or do you want it to be a console log that shows everything?

i'd say use a csv file for the first one, and then just load it up when the game loads and pipe each to a variable, do your thing, then overwrite the file with a new file every time one of these var's change.

For a console log, you can re-direct text to a log file by doing a '>> $logfile' at the end of the line you want to re-direct to the text file.

 

you can also use System.IO.StreamWriter if you feel like getting advanced.

 

ps: use powershell_ise you code is a mess, and you need to make sure your variables are pre-defined, $x was keeping it's value from previous runs.