In the last paragraph of my column "How To Debug a PowerShell Script," I mentioned that punctuation can be problematic in PowerShell strings. I often catch myself omitting apostrophes, for example, ...

I'm trying to pull SIDs and usernames from the registry on a windows box for use later in a script, so I wrote a bit of powershell to pull those out, trim off the crap and feed them into an array. The ...