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Adding values from two arrays into a PSCustomObject


I am trying to combine values from two arrays into a table using a PSCustomObject.

One array has the passwords and one array has the users.

When I try to combine them in to a PSCustomObject array it only list the last value in the array, not a list.

I have tried a few different versions:

for ($i = 0; $i -lt $users.Length; $i++) {$myObject = [PSCustomObject] @{name = $users.name[$i]; User = $users.samaccountname[$i]; Mail = $users.mail[$i]; Password = $passwords[$i]}}

and

foreach ($psw in $passwords) {$users | % {$myObject = [PSCustomObject] @{name = $PSItem.name; User = $PSItem.samaccountname; Mail = $PSItem.mail; Password = $psw}}}

When I try to use += on $myobject it gives the error:

Method invocation failed because [System.Management.Automation.PSObject] does not contain a method named 'op_Addition'.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?


Solution

  • Instead of using +=, simply assign all the output from the loop to a variable (also note that you'll probably want to index into $users rather than the synthetic collection(s) you get from $users.name etc. - otherwise it'll break if any property contains multiple values):

    $myObjects =
      for ($i = 0; $i -lt $users.Length; $i++) {
        [PSCustomObject] @{
          Name = $users[$i].name
          User = $users[$i].samaccountname 
          Mail = $users[$i].mail
          Password = $passwords[$i]
        }
      }