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Xander Vane
Xander Vane

Reputation: 197

Convert a part of a string into upper case

I am automatically obtaining directories from an application but I can't seem to get the actual directories with the correct case of letters.

For example I get $a='C:\test\dir\log\wqerst' but the actual directory is C:\test\dir\log\WQERST.

What I want is to uppercase only wqerst so it would show C:\test\dir\log\WQERST

I've already tried using substring but I don't know how I would be able to connect it to the whole directory once it is uppercase.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3519

Answers (2)

Esperento57
Esperento57

Reputation: 17462

Windows system is not case sensitive, but if you want really this result, you can do it :

$a='C:\test\dir\log\wqerst' 
$parentpath=Split-Path -Path $a
$file=(Split-Path -Path $a -Leaf).ToUpper()
$result=Join-Path $parentpath $file

$result

Upvotes: 2

Martin Brandl
Martin Brandl

Reputation: 58931

As James C. and vonPryz already wrote, there is not much point to get the case sensitive folder path. However you can use this helper method:

function Get-CaseSensitiveFilePath
{
    Param
    (
        [string]$FilePath
    )
    $parent = Split-Path $FilePath
    $leaf = Split-Path -Leaf $FilePath

    $result = Get-ChildItem $parent | where { $_ -like $leaf }
    $result.FullName
}

usage:

Get-CaseSensitiveFilePath -FilePath 'C:\test\dir\log\WQERST'

This will give you the case sensitive folder name but the directory must exist on the computer you execute the script...

Upvotes: 1

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