PowerShell function to join strings with a specified separator.
function Join-Part
{
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Join strings with a specified separator.
.DESCRIPTION
Join strings with a specified separator.
This strips out null values and any duplicate separator characters.
See examples for clarification.
.PARAMETER Separator
Separator to join with
.PARAMETER Parts
Strings to join
.EXAMPLE
Join-Part -Separator "/" this //should $Null /work/ /well
# Output: this/should/work/well
.EXAMPLE
Join-Part -Parts http://this.com, should, /work/, /wel
# Output: http://this.com/should/work/wel
.EXAMPLE
Join-Part -Separator "?" this ?should work ???well
# Output: this?should?work?well
.EXAMPLE
$CouldBeOneOrMore = @( "JustOne" )
Join-Part -Separator ? -Parts CouldBeOneOrMore
# Output JustOne
# If you have an arbitrary count of parts coming in,
# Unnecessary separators will not be added
.NOTES
Credit to Rob C. and Michael S. from this post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9593535/best-way-to-join-parts-with-a-separator-in-powershell
#>
[CmdletBinding()]
param
(
[Parameter()]
[String]
$Separator = '/',
[Parameter(ValueFromRemainingArguments = $true)]
[String[]]
$Parts = $null
)
($Parts | Where-Object { $_ } | ForEach-Object { ([String]$_).Trim($Separator) } | Where-Object { $_ }) -join $Separator
}