How to iterate through BaseObject property of PSObject in C#

Question

I have a list of PSObject items that are returned on calling the .Invoke() method while using the System.Management.Automation package. On debugging this, I can see the values of the objects that I want to print in the BaseObject and ImmediateBaseObject properties. However, on using the foreach loop to iterate through the results, and printing the BaseObjects of each item just prints the type of the item (System.Collections.ArrayList). How do I store the value of BaseObjects into a variable?

Here is the code and some screenshots:

using (var ps = PowerShell.Create())
{
    var results = ps.AddScript(File.ReadAllText(@".\PSScripts\test_func2.ps1")).Invoke();
    foreach (PSObject result in results)
    {
        if (result != null)
        {
             outList.Add(result.BaseObject.ToString())
        }
    }
}

This is the results object during debugging, which only has arrays of relevant data. Hidden due to privacy reasons.

This is the result object > BaseObject view during debugging. The result object's members property does not have the relevant data.

And this is the output I get on executing the above code:

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I resolved this issue by creating an IList object and casting my result object to IList. I can then iterate through the values of the IList variable. Here, res is a List<String[]> object declared with function level scope that can hold all values of the results object.

List<string> temp = new List<string>();
IList collection = (IList)result.BaseObject;
foreach(var x in collection)
{
    temp.Add((string)x);
}
res.Add(temp.ToArray());