Count characters in Powershell

I'm starting to make some scripts in PowerShell but I have a problem.

I want to count the number of characters that someone introduce by keyboard. I'm trying this:

write-host $FC
$numcar = $FC.Count

But it always returns 1.

Can someone help me?

1 Answer

Change your code to the following:

$FC = Read-Host -Prompt "Please enter some characters"
$numcar = $FC.length

You need to use the Read-Host command in order to get input from the keyboard. So this code sets the $FC variable to the data inputted from Read-Host and then the variable $numcar is set to the amount of characters entered, or 'length'. You got this confused with 'Count'.