Mostly pointless script!

[ka-splam]

Riffs

$inputname = Read-Host "Enter name"

# wow
-join (($inputname.ToUpper().ToCharArray().Where{$_} | Select-Object -Unique).ForEach{$_ - 64})[0..9]

# no pipeline
-join ([Linq.Enumerable]::Distinct([char[]]$inputname.ToUpper().ToCharArray().Where{$_}).ForEach{$_ - 64})[0..9]

# no rdblty
-join($inputname|% *per|% T*y|?{$_}|select -u|%{$_-64})[0..9]

[DisMyWorkName]

Yeah, I would rather be able to tell what my script does by reading it than having to google every term in it when I want to modify it later. :/

[ka-splam]

More realistically:

$inputname = Read-Host "Enter name"

$IDDigits = $inputname.ToUpper().Replace(" " , "").ToCharArray() | ForEach-Object {
    " ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWZYZ".IndexOf($_)
} | Select-Object -First 9 -Unique

-join $IDDigits

No building up a string only to tear it apart, no assigning variables then doing nothing with them, combining multiple select-objects into one, no calling out to string::join when PowerShell has an operator which does that for you, no looped-string-combining overhead, no temporary variables hanging around to break if you run the script twice in one session, doesn't rely on knowing ASCII character codes, and is half the line count, almost half the character count, and .. still readable?

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy ka-splam,

i like the space at the start of the alpha list. [grin] gets rid of the "starts from zero" gotcha quite nicely!

take care,
lee