{"id":1085,"date":"2011-01-28T09:56:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2011-03-28T08:25:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:25:47","slug":"friday-fun-lets-play-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/1085\/friday-fun-lets-play-bingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Let’s Play Bingo!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Campers we're playing Bingo. Or at least getting ready to. This week I have some PowerShell code that will create a BINGO card. For those of you outside of North America you might need to take a crash course on this game<\/a>. But even if you don't play, this article will demonstrate some useful PowerShell concepts and cmdlets like arrays. Get-Random and New-Object.
\nA standard BINGO card is a 5x5 matrix with BINGO spelled out across the top and a column of unique numbers for each letter. <\/p>\n

The first thing we need is an array of 5 numbers for each letter. Again, I'm sticking with the tradition where B is a number between 1 and 15, I is a letter between 16 and 45 and so on. Here's my first PowerShell step.
\n[cc lang=\"PowerShell\"]
\n#generate unique arrays of numbers for each letter
\n$B=1..15 | Get-Random -count 15 | select -first 5 -unique
\n$I=16..30 | Get-Random -count 15 | select -first 5 -unique
\n$N=31..45 | Get-Random -count 15 | select -first 5 -unique
\n$G=46..60 | Get-Random -count 15 | select -first 5 -unique
\n$O=61..75 | Get-Random -count 15 | select -first 5 -unique
\n[\/cc]
\nThe range operator (..) will return all numbers between 1 and 15 (and so on). I need 5 unique random numbers from this list. Piping the list to the Get-Random cmdlet would return a single value. Using the cmdlet's -Count parameter in essence takes all 15 numbers and generates a random order. Sort of like this:
\n[cc lang=\"PowerShell\"]
\nPS S:\\> 1..15 | get-random -count 5
\n15
\n9
\n5
\n13
\n10
\n[\/cc]
\nTo get 5 unique values, I pipe the collection of randomized numbers to Select-Object where I instruct the cmdlet to select the first 5 but only return unique values.<\/p>\n

In Bingo there is also usually at least one free space. I grew up playing in church with a free space dead center so that's where I put it on my card. There are variations with different free spaces but I'll let you work that out. For my card I'm going to modify the 3rd number t of the $N array using the string \"FS\" to indicate free space. Remember, arrays start counting at 0.
\n[cc lang=\"PowerShell\"]
\n#replace 3 element of N with \"Free Space\"
\n$N[2]=\"FS\"
\n[\/cc]
\nNow for the fun part. Instead of trying to manipulate and parse strings, we'll use objects. You'll see the benefit in a moment. We'll use a FOR loop to count through the number of items in the letter arrays, which is 5. For each number we'll use New-Object and create a custom object. The letters in BINGO will be the property names and the corresponding array value becomes the property value.
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\nfor ($x=0;$x -lt 5;$x++)
\n{
\n New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
\n B=$b[$x]
\n I=$i[$x]
\n N=$n[$x]
\n G=$g[$x]
\n O=$o[$x]
\n } | Select \"B\",\"I\",\"N\",\"G\",\"O\"
\n} #close FOR
\n[\/cc]
\nNew-Object doesn't write property names in the same order you define them, so I pipe the object to Select-Object and get them in the right order. When I run my final script I get output like this.
\n[cc lang=\"PowerShell\"]
\nPS S:\\> .\\New-BingoCard.ps1<\/p>\n

B : 5
\nI : 22
\nN : 45
\nG : 55
\nO : 72<\/p>\n

B : 4
\nI : 23
\nN : 44
\nG : 51
\nO : 75<\/p>\n

B : 6
\nI : 21
\nN : FS
\nG : 58
\nO : 68
\n...
\n[\/cc]
\nBut that's ok. I'm writing objects to the pipeline. Now I have options one what to do with them. For example, I can pipe my script to Format-Table and create a good looking grid.
\n[cc lang=\"PowerShell\"]
\nPS S:\\> .\\New-BingoCard.ps1 | format-table -AutoSize<\/p>\n

B I N G O
\n - - - - -
\n 7 18 39 53 68
\n 1 30 43 50 65
\n 9 23 FS 54 63
\n 6 25 38 60 74
\n11 21 41 51 66
\n[\/cc]
\nI could pipe it to a file, open in Notepad, increase the font size and print it out.
\n[cc lang=\"PowerShell\"]
\nPS S:\\> .\\New-BingoCard.ps1 | format-table -autosize | out-file c:\\work\\bingo.txt
\n[\/cc]
\nOr I can create an HTML version.
\n[cc lang=\"PowerShell\"]
\nPS S:\\> .\\New-BingoCard.ps1 |
\n>> convertto-html -title \"Bingo\" -css c:\\work\\bingo.css |
\n>> out-file c:\\work\\bingocard.htm
\n[\/cc]
\nI use a CSS link to add some nice HTML formatting. Here's my HTML bingo card.<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The point I'd like to drive home is to NOT include formatting in your script, otherwise you lock yourself in and miss out on all sorts of other possibilities.<\/p>\n

Download a zip file with my PowerShell script and CSS file here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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