How to delete variable from memory

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In powershell does "del variable:\" delete the variable from memory or just moves a point? I'm not too familiar with powershell memory management. Is there some place I could read up on it?

RobertJ · Accepted Answer · 2024-02-07 03:59:47Z

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It just releases a reference (pointer), but you can force garbage collection with [System.GC]::Collect().

Steven Murawski has a great blog post about this.

edited Feb 7, 2024 at 3:59

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