Prize Drawing

We did a simple script with the attendance list piped to a Get-Random to pull winners for the SIG last week.
The problem was for multiple prizes the list didn't get smaller.


So:

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if (-not $list) {     $list = new-object "System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection"     $list.AddRange(("Josh","Will","Bob","John","Jon","Sue"))   } $Winner = $list | Get-Random Write-Host "Please Congratulate: $winner" $list.Remove($Winner) $list

The first part will let you set the list once and just F5 for each prize.
If you run out of people -not $list will return true and reset everything.

Or, we can spiff it up:

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if (-not $People) {     Write-Host "Setting up Values"     $People = new-object "System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection"     $People.AddRange(("Josh","Will","Bob","John","Jon","Sue"))       $Prizes = new-object "System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection"     $Prizes.AddRange(("T-Shirt","T-Shirt","USB Drive","USB Drive","PowerShell CookBook E-Book","Training CD"))   } Function Get-Winner {     $Winner = $People | Get-Random     $Prize = $Prizes | Get-Random     Write-Host "Please Congratulate $Winner on their new $Prize"     $People.Remove($Winner)     $Prizes.Remove($prize) } While ($Prizes) { Get-Winner } # Manual Select and F8 to Reset #Remove-Variable People

This will just dump a list of winners.  You can remove the While Loop to run single results.  Or even modify to a For-Each and get prizes in order.