IronScripter Challenge - May 11, 2020 - A PowerShell Counting Challenge

1 - Get-IntermediateCountingChallenge .ps1

# Intermediate Challenge
# Create a PowerShell function to get the sum and average of every X number between 1 and a user specified maximum

function Get-IntermediateCountingChallenge {
    param(
        [int]$Step,
        [int]$Max
    )

    $NumberArray = for ($i = 1; $i -le $Max; $i = $i + $Step) { $i }
    $NumberArray | Measure-Object -Sum -Average | Select-Object Sum,Average
}

2 - Get-BonusCountingChallenge.ps1

# Bonus Challenge
# Add the following to the intermedidate challenge function
#   Limit the interval to a value between 1 and 10
#   Add a property to your output that includes all the matching number
#   Let the user specify the starting and stopping numbers

function Get-BonusCountingChallenge {
    param(
        [ValidateRange(1,10)]
        [int]$Step,
        [int]$Max,
        [int]$Begin
    )

    $NumberArray = for ($i = $Begin; $i -le $Max; $i = $i + $Step) { $i }
    $NumberArray  | Measure-Object -Sum -Average | Select-Object Sum,Average,@{l='MatchingNumbers';e={$NumberArray}}
}

PowerShell Counting Challenge

Check out my blog post for this.

Thanks for the [ValidateRange()] in your parameters section. I do not normally deal with range validators like this so it is a much more elegant solution than what I did for my solution. Always good to pick little things like that up!