String concatenation in PowerShell - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to join two strings with a space.

PowerShell

$greeting = "Hello " [1] "World"

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A/

B+

C*

D-

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using - or * instead of + causes errors or wrong results.

In PowerShell, the plus sign (+) is used to concatenate strings.

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medium

Complete the code to add an exclamation mark at the end of the string.

PowerShell

$message = "Hi" [1] "!"

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A+

B-

C*

D/

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using - or * instead of + causes errors.

Use + to join strings in PowerShell, so the exclamation mark is added.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to concatenate strings correctly.

PowerShell

$name = "John" [1] "Doe"

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A*

B&

C-

D+

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using & causes errors because it is for running commands.

The + operator correctly concatenates strings in PowerShell. The & operator runs commands, so it is incorrect here.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a full sentence by joining strings and a variable.

PowerShell

$age = 30
$sentence = "I am " [1] $age [2] " years old."

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A+

B-

D*

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using - or * causes errors or wrong output.

Use + to join strings and variables in PowerShell. Both blanks need + to concatenate properly.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to build a greeting with a name and punctuation.

PowerShell

$first = "Jane"
$last = "Smith"
$greet = "Hello, " [1] $first [2] $last [3] "!"

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A+

D-

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using - causes errors or breaks the string.

Use + to join all parts of the greeting string in PowerShell.