Windows PowerShell : PowerShell Tip: How to “shift” arrays…

Bruce Payette blogs the following... 

Link to Windows PowerShell : PowerShell Tip: How to “shift” arrays…

I haven't paid much attention to "mulitple assignment" in PoSH but this is a great example of what it can buy for us.  In the past in other languages we could initialize variables easily:

a, b, c,d = 0

name, rank, serial = "empty"

etc...

In PoSH:

$a,$b,$c,$d=0,1,2,3

$name,$rank,$serial = "empty","hello","world"

$a="empty","hello","world"

then

$x,$y,$z=$a   # will distribute the values back into individual variables

$m,$n=$a will put the first element in to $m and the remainder in $n

Read Bruce's blog to see how this plays out with arrays. It's quite useful and very cool.