powerhsell nube here, i can't figure out why my if statement works but the switch statement does not? aren't they both doing the same thing?
the $input variable has some lines in it that contain smiliar to the following:

Pseudo name=harddisk8

i'm trying to strip away the "Pseudo name=" part of the string. it works for my if statement but i tried it in a switch statement and it just outputs the line with the "Pseudo name="

foreach ($line in $input)
{
[string]$test = $line
switch ($test)
{
$test.Contains("Pseudo name"){$test = $test -replace "Pseudo name=",""} }
$test

#if ($test.Contains("Pseudo name")){
#$test = $test -replace "Pseudo name=",""
#}
#$test

}

I'm sorry, I think you aren't using switch properly. Consider this example:

$test="Pseudo name=foo"
switch -regex ($test){
"Pseudo name=*" {$_.replace("Pseudo name=","")};;
}

I think that does what you want. You might be over-complicating things by using a switch unless you're going to be doing several conditions.

thanks that worked . yeah i was just testing switch with 1 entry first :). what are the 2 ;; for by the way?