In a post yesterday, I looked at telling the difference between a scalar and arrays. The difference matters when working with PowerShell – a scalar has properties and methods, while an array has members that have properties and methods. You can directly reach into a scalar, whereas you need to process array members (e.g. using ForEach). If you assign a variable to the output of a cmdlet or a pipeline of cmdlets, you may end up with zero, one or more objects inside that variable. When you go to process that variable in your script/function, you need to know the differences.
In yesterday’s post, I noted that with GPO objects, what you got back was a collection, even if the collection had only one object. A comment left on the blog made a great point: this is a feature of the particular object model (i.e. GPMC objects). It’s not a feature of COM as such.
And this just underlines my conclusion – there’s no easy way to tell what you have, without knowing the object and underlying object model.
In yesterday’s post, I noted that with GPO objects, what you got back was a collection, even if the collection had only one object. A comment left on the blog made a great point: this is a feature of the particular object model (i.e. GPMC objects). It’s not a feature of COM as such.
And this just underlines my conclusion – there’s no easy way to tell what you have, without knowing the object and underlying object model.
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Arrays have methods and proprties too :-)
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