Vista - Getting description from a variable

Is there a way to get a description from a variable?

I know you can use Get-Variable to get the info, but I have a situation
where I'm running through a foreach loop and I want to get the description of
the current variable in the loop.

Set-Variable MyVar -value "hey" -description "Description of MyVar"
$MyVar | %{ #I want the description here }

Only the variable's value/content is piped and Get-Variable needs the variable name, you can parse the command and extract the variable name.
In v2 CTP2 the [Management.Automation.PSParser]'s Tokenize() Method is also a good option to parse the command.
In this sample a RegEx extracts the variable name:

sv MyVar hey -des 'Description of MyVar'
# one-liner
$MyVar | %{(gv ($myInvocation.myCommand.definition -replace '^\$(\w+).+$','$1')).description}

# apply single line to the RegEx when the command is not a one-liner
$MyVar | %{
(gv ($myInvocation.myCommand.definition -replace '(?s)^\$(\w+).+$','$1')
).description
}

Another option is to pipe the variable name and grab the variable's properties in the ForEach-Object statement.

'myVar' | % {
$var = gv $_
$var.description
$var.value.toUpper()
}

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Kiron

Thanks. That's a little deeper than I wanted to get right now, and I realized
after a little more exploring it wouldn't be that easy and changed my logic.



"Kiron" wrote:

On Nov 10, 12:40*pm, PaulChavez <PaulCha...@xxxxxx>
wrote:get-variable myvar|%{$_.decription,$_.value,'both available here'}