Let's say we have an array of objects $objects. Let's say these objects have a "Name" property.
This is what I want to do
$results = @()
$objects | %{ $results += $_.Name }
This works, but can it be done in a better way?
If I do something like:
$results = objects | select Name
$results
is an array of objects having a Name property. I want $results to contain an array of Names.
Is there a better way?
I think you might be able to use the ExpandProperty
parameter of Select-Object
.
For example, to get the list of the current directory and just have the Name property displayed, one would do the following:
ls | select -Property Name
This is still returning DirectoryInfo or FileInfo objects. You can always inspect the type coming through the pipeline by piping to Get-Member (alias gm
).
ls | select -Property Name | gm
So, to expand the object to be that of the type of property you're looking at, you can do the following:
ls | select -ExpandProperty Name
In your case, you can just do the following to have a variable be an array of strings, where the strings are the Name property:
$objects = ls | select -ExpandProperty Name