PowerShell “Period” operator, what does it do?

Question

I\'ve been looking online for a specific answer to better help me understand how this works. In PHP we use the \" . \" to concatenate strings. However in powershell I see things

Answer 1

Powershell has very good help files included that can answer many questions.

See:

get-help about_operators

and you will find that the dot is used as both a Property dereferencing operator and a scope operator, with explanations of the use of each.

Can also see this under about_operators on TechNet