Question

Script #2 – Leap Year

Description:  Given a year, report if it is a leap year.

Purpose: Learn the use of if statements.

Instructions:  Complete this assignment to make sure that you know how to use if statements in Powershell.

	A leap year in the Gregorian calendar occurs: on every year that is evenly divisible by 4 except every year that is evenly divisible by 100 unless the year is also evenly divisible by 400

• Write a script that prompts a user for a year. After the users enters the year, inform the user if the year is a leap year.
• Test the script to make sure it operates correctly.
• Save the script in a .ps1 file, this will be one of the files that you submit to D2L
• Take a print screen to show that the script is working correctly
• Submit the script and print screen files.

Answer 1

File: leapyear.ps1
Code:

$year = read-Host -Prompt 'Enter the year'
if($year % 4 -eq 0) {
        if ($year % 100 -eq 0) {
            if($year % 400 -eq 0) {
                write-host("This is Leap Year")
            }    
            else{
                write-host("Not a leap year")
            }
        }
        else {
            write-host("This is a leap year")
        }
    }    
else {
    write-host("Not a leap Year")
}