Restricting Powershell Cmdlet Values

In any program or script, it's (nearly) always a good thing to validate user input and try to catch errors early. In PowerShell, if you need to only allow a choice of one from a set of values, you can use the ValidateSet attribute to define what they are.

I use PowerShell enough nowadays that I know the syntax exists but not enough that it's made it's way into my long term memory. So this is more for me than it is for you :)

Param (
[Parameter(Position=0)]
[ValidateSet("Fee","Fi","Fo","Fum")]
[string]$Giant,
...
)

The other common use case is limiting input to a range of values. For this we need the ValidateRange attribute.

...
[Parameter(Position=1)]
[ValidateRange(1,100)]
[int]$Percent=100,
...