Note:

• Changing this would technically be a breaking change and/or may be undesirable for performance reasons, in which case the issue should be documented.

When converting from strings,

• PowerShell currently DOES recognize binary-multiplier suffixes such as kb, mb, ...:

  • in expressions (e.g., '1gb' / 1)

• but DOES NOT recognize them:

  • during implicit type conversion in then context of parameter binding (e.g.,
    & { param([int] $foo) } '1gb')

  • (perhaps less surprisingly) in explicit type conversions with casts (e.g., [int] '1gb')

Update: The same applies to PowerShell's number-data-type suffixes such as d for [decimal] and l for [long].

Environment data

Written as of:

PowerShell Core 6.1.0-preview.4