Looking for a way to grab the first character of a value and assign it to a value.
Can't seem to get the language right... here is what I have as an example:

$strFname = "Jason"
$strFnameInit = $strFname.left(1)

I want $strFnameInit to be assigned "J" here.
When I run the code I get the following error in PowerGUI:

Method invocation failed because [System.String] doesn't contain a method named 'left'.

You can always use the substring() string method:

PS > $strFnameInit = $strFname.substring(0,1)
PS > $strFnameInit
J

Or using array notation:

PS > $strFnameInit = $strFname[ 0 ]
PS > $strFnameInit
J

Perfect, thanks for your speedy response Shay!